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mm: Place preemption point in do_mlockall() loop

There is a loop in do_mlockall() that lacks a preemption point, which
means that the following can happen on non-preemptible builds of the
kernel. Dave Jones reports:

"My fuzz tester keeps hitting this. Every instance shows the non-irq
stack came in from mlockall. I'm only seeing this on one box, but
that has more ram (8gb) than my other machines, which might explain
it.

INFO: rcu_preempt self-detected stall on CPU { 3} (t=6500 jiffies g=470344 c=470343 q=0)
sending NMI to all CPUs:
NMI backtrace for cpu 3
CPU: 3 PID: 29664 Comm: trinity-child2 Not tainted 3.11.0-rc1+ #32
Call Trace:
lru_add_drain_all+0x15/0x20
SyS_mlockall+0xa5/0x1a0
tracesys+0xdd/0xe2"

This commit addresses this problem by inserting the required preemption
point.

Reported-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

authored by

Paul E. McKenney and committed by
Linus Torvalds
22356f44 a153e67b

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mm/mlock.c
··· 736 736 737 737 /* Ignore errors */ 738 738 mlock_fixup(vma, &prev, vma->vm_start, vma->vm_end, newflags); 739 + cond_resched(); 739 740 } 740 741 out: 741 742 return 0;