Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.
Juergen Gross
authored
[ Upstream commit 8480ed9c ] Today the Xen ballooning is done via delayed work in a workqueue. This might result in workqueue hangups being reported in case of large amounts of memory are being ballooned in one go (here 16GB): BUG: workqueue lockup - pool cpus=6 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 stuck for 64s! Showing busy workqueues and worker pools: workqueue events: flags=0x0 pwq 12: cpus=6 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=2/256 refcnt=3 in-flight: 229:balloon_process pending: cache_reap workqueue events_freezable_power_: flags=0x84 pwq 12: cpus=6 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 refcnt=2 pending: disk_events_workfn workqueue mm_percpu_wq: flags=0x8 pwq 12: cpus=6 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 active=1/256 refcnt=2 pending: vmstat_update pool 12: cpus=6 node=0 flags=0x0 nice=0 hung=64s workers=3 idle: 2222 43 This can easily be avoided by using a dedicated kernel thread for doing the ballooning work. Reported-by:Jan Beulich <jbeulich@suse.com> Signed-off-by:
Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com> Reviewed-by:
Boris Ostrovsky <boris.ostrovsky@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210827123206.15429-1-jgross@suse.com Signed-off-by:
Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
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