xen/balloon: use a kernel thread instead a workqueue
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.comSigned-off-by: Juergen Gross <jgross@suse.com>
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