This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled virtio_net: suppress cpu stall when free_unused_bufs to the 5.4-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: virtio_net-suppress-cpu-stall-when-free_unused_bufs.patch and it can be found in the queue-5.4 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit b8974557fe2a5ceb5f01441d8a993eb39e9cc472 Author: Wenliang Wang <wangwenliang.1995@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu May 4 10:27:06 2023 +0800 virtio_net: suppress cpu stall when free_unused_bufs [ Upstream commit f8bb5104394560e29017c25bcade4c6b7aabd108 ] For multi-queue and large ring-size use case, the following error occurred when free_unused_bufs: rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU. Fixes: 986a4f4d452d ("virtio_net: multiqueue support") Signed-off-by: Wenliang Wang <wangwenliang.1995@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c index b77181f04b119..7922e833620e8 100644 --- a/drivers/net/virtio_net.c +++ b/drivers/net/virtio_net.c @@ -2822,12 +2822,14 @@ static void free_unused_bufs(struct virtnet_info *vi) struct virtqueue *vq = vi->sq[i].vq; while ((buf = virtqueue_detach_unused_buf(vq)) != NULL) virtnet_sq_free_unused_buf(vq, buf); + cond_resched(); } for (i = 0; i < vi->max_queue_pairs; i++) { struct virtqueue *vq = vi->rq[i].vq; while ((buf = virtqueue_detach_unused_buf(vq)) != NULL) virtnet_rq_free_unused_buf(vq, buf); + cond_resched(); } }