The following commit has been merged into the sched/core branch of tip: Commit-ID: 05bfb338fa8dd40b008ce443e397fc374f6bd107 Gitweb: https://git.kernel.org/tip/05bfb338fa8dd40b008ce443e397fc374f6bd107 Author: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Fri, 24 Feb 2023 08:50:01 -08:00 Committer: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> CommitterDate: Wed, 22 Mar 2023 17:09:29 +01:00 vhost: Fix livepatch timeouts in vhost_worker() Livepatch timeouts were reported due to busy vhost_worker() kthreads. Now that cond_resched() can do livepatch task switching, use cond_resched() in vhost_worker(). That's the better way to conditionally call schedule() anyway. Reported-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> Tested-by: Seth Forshee (DigitalOcean) <sforshee@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/509f6ea6fe6505f0a75a66026ba531c765ef922f.1677257135.git.jpoimboe@xxxxxxxxxx --- drivers/vhost/vhost.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c index f11bdbe..822fbdb 100644 --- a/drivers/vhost/vhost.c +++ b/drivers/vhost/vhost.c @@ -363,8 +363,7 @@ static int vhost_worker(void *data) kcov_remote_start_common(dev->kcov_handle); work->fn(work); kcov_remote_stop(); - if (need_resched()) - schedule(); + cond_resched(); } } kthread_unuse_mm(dev->mm);