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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/lkml/20230120-vhost-klp-switching-v1-0-7c2b65519c43@xxxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Josh Poimboeuf <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 cbe72bfd2f1f..424c0c939f57 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); -- 2.39.0