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+From a22c4c7bbfad3e93e717e16f6faf343259add27a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
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+From: Hauke Mehrtens <[email protected]>
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+Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:09:04 +0100
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+Subject: [PATCH v2] kernel/fork: Increase minimum number of allowed threads
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+A modern Linux system creates much more than 20 threads at bootup.
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+When I booted up OpenWrt in qemu the system sometimes failed to boot up
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+when it wanted to create the 419th thread. The VM had 128MB RAM and the
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+calculation in set_max_threads() calculated that max_threads should be
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+set to 419. When the system booted up it tried to notify the user space
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+about every device it created because CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER was set and
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+used. I counted 1299 calls to call_usermodehelper_setup(), all of
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+them try to create a new thread and call the userspace hotplug script in
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+it.
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+
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+This fixes bootup of Linux on systems with low memory.
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+I saw the problem with qemu 10.0.2 using these commands:
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+qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -cpu cortex-a57 -nographic
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+Cc: [email protected]
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+Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <[email protected]>
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+---
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+ kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
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+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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+
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+--- a/kernel/fork.c
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++++ b/kernel/fork.c
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+@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
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+ /*
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+ * Minimum number of threads to boot the kernel
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+ */
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+-#define MIN_THREADS 20
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++#define MIN_THREADS 600
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+
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+ /*
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+ * Maximum number of threads
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