Merge tag 'rcu-urgent.2022.07.21a' of...
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 282d8998 ("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
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