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Waiman Long 8d2d22a55f mm/kmemleak: avoid soft lockup in __kmemleak_do_cleanup() 
commit d1534ae23c upstream.

A soft lockup warning was observed on a relative small system x86-64
system with 16 GB of memory when running a debug kernel with kmemleak
enabled.

  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#8 stuck for 33s! [kworker/8:1:134]

The test system was running a workload with hot unplug happening in
parallel.  Then kemleak decided to disable itself due to its inability to
allocate more kmemleak objects.  The debug kernel has its
CONFIG_DEBUG_KMEMLEAK_MEM_POOL_SIZE set to 40,000.

The soft lockup happened in kmemleak_do_cleanup() when the existing
kmemleak objects were being removed and deleted one-by-one in a loop via a
workqueue.  In this particular case, there are at least 40,000 objects
that need to be processed and given the slowness of a debug kernel and the
fact that a raw_spinlock has to be acquired and released in
__delete_object(), it could take a while to properly handle all these
objects.

As kmemleak has been disabled in this case, the object removal and
deletion process can be further optimized as locking isn't really needed.
However, it is probably not worth the effort to optimize for such an edge
case that should rarely happen.  So the simple solution is to call
cond_resched() at periodic interval in the iteration loop to avoid soft
lockup.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250728190248.605750-1-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: <stable@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
History 2025-08-20 18:30:55 +02:00
arch mm/ptdump: take the memory hotplug lock inside ptdump_walk_pgd() 2025-08-20 18:30:55 +02:00
block block: Introduce bio_needs_zone_write_plugging() 2025-08-20 18:30:51 +02:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: jitter - fix intermediary handling 2025-08-20 18:30:42 +02:00
Documentation Documentation: ACPI: Fix parent device references 2025-08-20 18:30:15 +02:00
drivers hv_netvsc: Fix panic during namespace deletion with VF 2025-08-20 18:30:55 +02:00
fs xfs: fix scrub trace with null pointer in quotacheck 2025-08-20 18:30:54 +02:00
include block: Introduce bio_needs_zone_write_plugging() 2025-08-20 18:30:51 +02:00
init io_uring: fix breakage in EXPERT menu 2025-08-15 12:13:32 +02:00
io_uring io_uring/poll: fix POLLERR handling 2025-07-24 08:56:23 +02:00
ipc ipc: fix to protect IPCS lookups using RCU 2025-06-27 11:11:22 +01:00
kernel printk: nbcon: Allow reacquire during panic 2025-08-20 18:30:47 +02:00
lib lib/sbitmap: convert shallow_depth from one word to the whole sbitmap 2025-08-20 18:30:49 +02:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm/kmemleak: avoid soft lockup in __kmemleak_do_cleanup() 2025-08-20 18:30:55 +02:00
net net/sched: ets: use old 'nbands' while purging unused classes 2025-08-20 18:30:54 +02:00
rust rust: use #[used(compiler)] to fix build and modpost with Rust >= 1.89.0 2025-07-24 08:56:37 +02:00
samples samples: mei: Fix building on musl libc 2025-08-15 12:13:38 +02:00
scripts kconfig: lxdialog: fix 'space' to (de)select options 2025-08-20 18:30:48 +02:00
security apparmor: fix x_table_lookup when stacking is not the first entry 2025-08-20 18:30:47 +02:00
sound ASoC: fsl_sai: replace regmap_write with regmap_update_bits 2025-08-20 18:30:50 +02:00
tools tools/power turbostat: Handle cap_get_proc() ENOSYS 2025-08-20 18:30:49 +02:00
usr kbuild: hdrcheck: fix cross build with clang 2025-03-13 13:02:18 +01:00
virt KVM: Allow CPU to reschedule while setting per-page memory attributes 2025-07-17 18:37:08 +02:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: give Clippy the minimum supported Rust version 2025-08-01 09:48:44 +01:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add Jeff Kirsher to .get_maintainer.ignore 2024-03-08 11:36:54 +00:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore rust: introduce .clippy.toml 2025-03-13 13:01:42 +01:00
.mailmap mailmap: add entry for Thorsten Blum 2024-11-07 14:14:59 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: Remove self from DSA entry 2024-11-03 12:52:38 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: Update Alexey Makhalov's email address 2025-05-22 14:29:46 +02:00
Makefile Linux 6.12.42 2025-08-15 12:14:14 +02:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
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
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.