mm/page_alloc: fix watchdog soft lockups during set_zone_contiguous()

Without CONFIG_PREEMPT, it can happen that we get soft lockups detected,
e.g., while booting up.

  watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#0 stuck for 22s! [swapper/0:1]
  CPU: 0 PID: 1 Comm: swapper/0 Not tainted 5.6.0-next-20200331+ #4
  Hardware name: Red Hat KVM, BIOS 1.11.1-4.module+el8.1.0+4066+0f1aadab 04/01/2014
  RIP: __pageblock_pfn_to_page+0x134/0x1c0
  Call Trace:
   set_zone_contiguous+0x56/0x70
   page_alloc_init_late+0x166/0x176
   kernel_init_freeable+0xfa/0x255
   kernel_init+0xa/0x106
   ret_from_fork+0x35/0x40

The issue becomes visible when having a lot of memory (e.g., 4TB)
assigned to a single NUMA node - a system that can easily be created
using QEMU.  Inside VMs on a hypervisor with quite some memory
overcommit, this is fairly easy to trigger.

Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Pankaj Gupta <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Shile Zhang <[email protected]>
Acked-by: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Kirill Tkhai <[email protected]>
Cc: Shile Zhang <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Tatashin <[email protected]>
Cc: Daniel Jordan <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Cc: Alexander Duyck <[email protected]>
Cc: Baoquan He <[email protected]>
Cc: Oscar Salvador <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 69827d4fa052..f31eda080823 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -1607,6 +1607,7 @@ void set_zone_contiguous(struct zone *zone)
 		if (!__pageblock_pfn_to_page(block_start_pfn,
 					     block_end_pfn, zone))
 			return;
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 
 	/* We confirm that there is no hole */