Re: [PATCH v2] mm/migrate: fix softlockup in do_pages_move() with huge page arrays

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 11/8/26 07:28, shao.mingyin@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Shao Mingyin <shao.mingyin@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> mm/migrate: fix softlockup in do_pages_move() with huge page arrays
> 
> do_pages_move() walks the array one page at a time.  An entry naming the
> node its page is already on is never queued, so the loop runs without a
> voluntary preemption point on a non-preemptible kernel; the existing
> cond_resched() calls in the migration code are only reached after a
> folio has been queued.  nr_pages comes straight from the syscall.
> 
> A 6.6.60 x86_64 kernel with CONFIG_PREEMPT_NONE=y and CONFIG_NUMA=y
> reproduces this under QEMU TCG: 50 million entries pointing at a page
> already on the target node keep the CPU in do_pages_move() for 42.9 s and
> trip the softlockup watchdog; with this patch the same call completes in
> 44.3 s without a softlockup.
> 
> Add cond_resched() so that long calls yield periodically.
> do_pages_stat() had the same problem; it was fixed by 8e934ab44389.  In
> current mainline only alpha, hexagon and classic m68k can select
> PREEMPT_NONE and they cannot enable CONFIG_NUMA, so this mainly targets
> pre-v7.0 stable kernels.

I hat that we have to care about this, and I'll probably increasingly hard push
back against such effective stable-only fixes in the future.

In particular if it wasn't even encountered in practice but required a QEMU TCG
instance to even trigger it ...

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Cheers,

David