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[PATCH 4.9 52/60] x86/mm/ptdump: Fix soft lockup in page table walker

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4.9-stable review patch.  If anyone has any objections, please let me know.

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From: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>

commit 146fbb766934dc003fcbf755b519acef683576bf upstream.

CONFIG_KASAN=y needs a lot of virtual memory mapped for its shadow.
In that case ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core() takes a lot of time to
walk across all page tables and doing this without
a rescheduling causes soft lockups:

 NMI watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#3 stuck for 23s! [swapper/0:1]
 ...
 Call Trace:
  ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core+0x40c/0x550
  ptdump_walk_pgd_level_checkwx+0x17/0x20
  mark_rodata_ro+0x13b/0x150
  kernel_init+0x2f/0x120
  ret_from_fork+0x2c/0x40

I guess that this issue might arise even without KASAN on huge machines
with several terabytes of RAM.

Stick cond_resched() in pgd loop to fix this.

Reported-by: Tobias Regnery <tobias.regnery@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
Cc: kasan-dev@googlegroups.com
Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
Cc: "Paul E . McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170210095405.31802-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
 arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/dump_pagetables.c
@@ -15,6 +15,7 @@
 #include <linux/debugfs.h>
 #include <linux/mm.h>
 #include <linux/init.h>
+#include <linux/sched.h>
 #include <linux/seq_file.h>
 
 #include <asm/pgtable.h>
@@ -406,6 +407,7 @@ static void ptdump_walk_pgd_level_core(s
 		} else
 			note_page(m, &st, __pgprot(0), 1);
 
+		cond_resched();
 		start++;
 	}
 

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