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authorRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2014-03-13 04:53:38 +0400
committerRusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>2014-03-13 04:57:55 +0400
commit1f74ef0f2d7d692fcd615621e0e734c3e7771413 (patch)
tree697a88da1944bc02ba82afd3758d01fb1b2f556a /drivers/virtio
parent5e37f67063a14450f1fff3baee81efe7c146592a (diff)
downloadlinux-1f74ef0f2d7d692fcd615621e0e734c3e7771413.tar.xz
virtio_balloon: don't softlockup on huge balloon changes.
When adding or removing 100G from a balloon: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [vballoon:367] We have a wait_event_interruptible(), but the condition is always true (more ballooning to do) so we don't ever sleep. We also have a wait_event() for the host to ack, but that is also always true as QEMU is synchronous for balloon operations. Reported-by: Gopesh Kumar Chaudhary <gopchaud@in.ibm.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Diffstat (limited to 'drivers/virtio')
-rw-r--r--drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c6
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
index 34bdabaecbd6..36e7859a31aa 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -310,6 +310,12 @@ static int balloon(void *_vballoon)
else if (diff < 0)
leak_balloon(vb, -diff);
update_balloon_size(vb);
+
+ /*
+ * For large balloon changes, we could spend a lot of time
+ * and always have work to do. Be nice if preempt disabled.
+ */
+ cond_resched();
}
return 0;
}