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powerpc/pseries/mobility: use cond_resched when updating device tree
authorNathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Fri, 2 Aug 2019 19:29:26 +0000 (14:29 -0500)
committerMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Tue, 20 Aug 2019 11:22:28 +0000 (21:22 +1000)
commitccfb5bd71d3d1228090a8633800ae7cdf42a94ac
tree78cfdb54c0543c12ecd9825a0bbcc75e22dfd5bf
parent10e4850d7c7f2af2e5c40520b8caf73bf9d7e2d1
powerpc/pseries/mobility: use cond_resched when updating device tree

After a partition migration, pseries_devicetree_update() processes
changes to the device tree communicated from the platform to
Linux. This is a relatively heavyweight operation, with multiple
device tree searches, memory allocations, and conversations with
partition firmware.

There's a few levels of nested loops which are bounded only by
decisions made by the platform, outside of Linux's control, and indeed
we have seen RCU stalls on large systems while executing this call
graph. Use cond_resched() in these loops so that the cpu is yielded
when needed.

Signed-off-by: Nathan Lynch <nathanl@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20190802192926.19277-4-nathanl@linux.ibm.com
arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries/mobility.c