Re: [PATCH rcu 6/6] rcu: Allow up to five minutes expedited RCU CPU stall-warning timeouts

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Paul,

Thanks for your patch, which is now commit 0d49d9123dcf41f7 ("rcu:
Allow up to five minutes expedited RCU CPU stall-warning timeouts")
in next-20230109.

On Thu, Jan 5, 2023 at 2:10 AM Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> The maximum value of RCU CPU stall-warning timeouts has historically been
> five minutes (300 seconds).  However, the recently introduced expedited
> RCU CPU stall-warning timeout is instead limited to 21 seconds.  This
> causes problems for CI/fuzzing services such as syzkaller by obscuring
> the issue in question with expedited RCU CPU stall-warning timeout splats.
>
> This commit therefore sets the RCU_EXP_CPU_STALL_TIMEOUT Kconfig options
> upper bound to 300000 milliseconds, which is 300 seconds and 5 minutes.

s/and/or/

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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