[3.11.y.z extended stable] Patch "virtio_balloon: don't softlockup on huge balloon changes." has been added to staging queue

[Luis Henriques]

This is a note to let you know that I have just added a patch titled

    virtio_balloon: don't softlockup on huge balloon changes.

to the linux-3.11.y-queue branch of the 3.11.y.z extended stable tree 
which can be found at:

 http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=ubuntu/linux.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/linux-3.11.y-queue

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to this tree, please 
reply to this email.

For more information about the 3.11.y.z tree, see
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Kernel/Dev/ExtendedStable

Thanks.
-Luis

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>From 815bdd9c423fcf0b291c14e4e5e0e0cb36780175 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Date: Thu, 13 Mar 2014 11:23:38 +1030
Subject: virtio_balloon: don't softlockup on huge balloon changes.

commit 1f74ef0f2d7d692fcd615621e0e734c3e7771413 upstream.

When adding or removing 100G from a balloon:

    BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [vballoon:367]

We have a wait_event_interruptible(), but the condition is always true
(more ballooning to do) so we don't ever sleep.  We also have a
wait_event() for the host to ack, but that is also always true as QEMU
is synchronous for balloon operations.

Reported-by: Gopesh Kumar Chaudhary <gopchaud at in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty at rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Luis Henriques <luis.henriques at canonical.com>
---
 drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
index 1f572c0..cfda0a6 100644
--- a/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
+++ b/drivers/virtio/virtio_balloon.c
@@ -312,6 +312,12 @@ static int balloon(void *_vballoon)
 		else if (diff < 0)
 			leak_balloon(vb, -diff);
 		update_balloon_size(vb);
+
+		/*
+		 * For large balloon changes, we could spend a lot of time
+		 * and always have work to do.  Be nice if preempt disabled.
+		 */
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 	return 0;
 }
--
1.9.1