Commit b191c9bc authored by Jianxing Wang's avatar Jianxing Wang Committed by akpm
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mm/mmu_gather: limit free batch count and add schedule point in tlb_batch_pages_flush

free a large list of pages maybe cause rcu_sched starved on
non-preemptible kernels.  howerver free_unref_page_list maybe can't
cond_resched as it maybe called in interrupt or atomic context, especially
can't detect atomic context in CONFIG_PREEMPTION=n.

The issue is detected in guest with kvm cpu 200% overcommit, however I
didn't see the warning in the host with the same application.  I'm sure
that the patch is needed for guest kernel, but no sure for host.

To reproduce, set up two virtual machines in one host machine, per vm has
the same number cpu and half memory of host.  the run ltpstress.sh in per
vm, then will see rcu stall warning.kernel is preempt disabled, append
kernel command 'preempt=none' if enable dynamic preempt .  It could
detected in loongson machine(32 core, 128G mem) and ProLiant DL380
Gen9(x86 E5-2680, 28 core, 64G mem)

tlb flush batch count depends on PAGE_SIZE, it's too large if PAGE_SIZE >
4K, ...
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