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Under some conditions, kmalloc(GFP_KERNEL) allocations have been observed to repeatedly fail. This situation has been observed to cause one of the rcu_scale_writer() instances to loop indefinitely retrying memory allocation for an asynchronous grace-period primitive. The problem is that if memory is short, all the other instances will allocate all available memory before the looping task is awakened from its rcu_barrier*() call. This in turn results in hangs, so that rcuscale fails to complete. This commit therefore removes the tight retry loop, so that when this condition occurs, the affected task is still passing through the full loop with its full set of termination checks. This spreads the risk of indefinite memory-allocation retry failures across all instances of rcu_scale_writer() tasks, which in turn prevents the hangs. Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Neeraj Upadhyay <neeraj.upadhyay@kernel.org> |
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Linux kernel
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be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
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the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.