Linux kernel stable tree (mirror) https://git.radix-linux.su/kernel/linux.git/atom?h=v6.6.132 2023-03-22T16:09:28+00:00 2023-03-22T16:09:28+00:00 Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@kernel.org 2023-02-24T16:50:00+00:00 urn:sha1:e3ff7c609f39671d1aaff4fb4a8594e14f3e03f8 There have been reports [1][2] of live patches failing to complete within a reasonable amount of time due to CPU-bound kthreads. Fix it by patching tasks in cond_resched(). There are four different flavors of cond_resched(), depending on the kernel configuration. Hook into all of them. A more elegant solution might be to use a preempt notifier. However, non-ORC unwinders can't unwind a preempted task reliably. [1] https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20220507174628.2086373-1-song@kernel.org/ [2] https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20230120-vhost-klp-switching-v1-0-7c2b65519c43@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Tested-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee@kernel.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/4ae981466b7814ec221014fc2554b2f86f3fb70b.1677257135.git.jpoimboe@kernel.org