linux-kernel - [PATCH 4.14 099/126] rhashtable: add schedule points

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Message-Id: <20180917211710.401950636@linuxfoundation.org>
Date:   Tue, 18 Sep 2018 00:42:27 +0200
From:   Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
To:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        stable@...r.kernel.org, Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>,
        Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: [PATCH 4.14 099/126] rhashtable: add schedule points

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

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From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>

Rehashing and destroying large hash table takes a lot of time,
and happens in process context. It is safe to add cond_resched()
in rhashtable_rehash_table() and rhashtable_free_and_destroy()

Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@...gle.com>
Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
(cherry picked from commit ae6da1f503abb5a5081f9f6c4a6881de97830f3e)
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
---
 lib/rhashtable.c |    2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

--- a/lib/rhashtable.c
+++ b/lib/rhashtable.c
@@ -364,6 +364,7 @@ static int rhashtable_rehash_table(struc
 		err = rhashtable_rehash_chain(ht, old_hash);
 		if (err)
 			return err;
+		cond_resched();
 	}
 
 	/* Publish the new table pointer. */
@@ -1073,6 +1074,7 @@ void rhashtable_free_and_destroy(struct
 		for (i = 0; i < tbl->size; i++) {
 			struct rhash_head *pos, *next;
 
+			cond_resched();
 			for (pos = rht_dereference(*rht_bucket(tbl, i), ht),
 			     next = !rht_is_a_nulls(pos) ?
 					rht_dereference(pos->next, ht) : NULL;