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mm, hugetlb: schedule when potentially allocating many hugepages
authorDavid Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 22:48:50 +0000 (15:48 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 10 Jul 2017 23:32:31 +0000 (16:32 -0700)
commitff31d902c55c6e7643c2fc9bce85ef4b9890e2cb
treefdb48ca5122fcbbd4fbe42910a44d0341d22467f
parent4e979f69f7dbaf20b9e5c3a53dd739c33f204a55
mm, hugetlb: schedule when potentially allocating many hugepages

A few hugetlb allocators loop while calling the page allocator and can
potentially prevent rescheduling if the page allocator slowpath is not
utilized.

Conditionally schedule when large numbers of hugepages can be allocated.

Anshuman:
 "Fixes a task which was getting hung while writing like 10000 hugepages
  (16MB on POWER8) into /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages."

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.10.1706091535300.66176@chino.kir.corp.google.com
Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Mike Kravetz <mike.kravetz@oracle.com>
Tested-by: Anshuman Khandual <khandual@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
Cc: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
mm/hugetlb.c