This pull request contains a pair of commits that fix 282d8998e9 ("srcu:
Prevent expedited GPs and blocking readers from consuming CPU"), which
was itself a fix to an SRCU expedited grace-period problem that could
prevent kernel live patching (KLP) from completing. That SRCU fix for
KLP introduced large (as in minutes) boot-time delays to embedded Linux
kernels running on qemu/KVM. These delays were due to the emulation of
certain MMIO operations controlling memory layout, which were emulated
with one expedited grace period per access. Common configurations
required thousands of boot-time MMIO accesses, and thus thousands of
boot-time expedited SRCU grace periods.
In these configurations, the occasional sleeps that allowed KLP to proceed
caused excessive boot delays. These commits preserve enough sleeps to
permit KLP to proceed, but few enough that the virtual embedded kernels
still boot reasonably quickly.
This represents a regression introduced in the v5.19 merge window,
and the bug is causing significant inconvenience, hence this pull request.
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Merge tag 'rcu-urgent.2022.07.21a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu
Pull RCU fix from Paul McKenney:
"This contains a pair of commits that fix 282d8998e9 ("srcu: Prevent
expedited GPs and blocking readers from consuming CPU"), which was
itself a fix to an SRCU expedited grace-period problem that could
prevent kernel live patching (KLP) from completing.
That SRCU fix for KLP introduced large (as in minutes) boot-time
delays to embedded Linux kernels running on qemu/KVM. These delays
were due to the emulation of certain MMIO operations controlling
memory layout, which were emulated with one expedited grace period per
access. Common configurations required thousands of boot-time MMIO
accesses, and thus thousands of boot-time expedited SRCU grace
periods.
In these configurations, the occasional sleeps that allowed KLP to
proceed caused excessive boot delays. These commits preserve enough
sleeps to permit KLP to proceed, but few enough that the virtual
embedded kernels still boot reasonably quickly.
This represents a regression introduced in the v5.19 merge window, and
the bug is causing significant inconvenience"
* tag 'rcu-urgent.2022.07.21a' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulmck/linux-rcu:
srcu: Make expedited RCU grace periods block even less frequently
srcu: Block less aggressively for expedited grace periods
4ba1329cbb