[openwrt/openwrt] kernel: Fix boot of amrsr target in qemu

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hauke pushed a commit to openwrt/openwrt.git, branch main:
https://git.openwrt.org/c5330bdf7e8a577d98a4075cd9d022c1048d2913

commit c5330bdf7e8a577d98a4075cd9d022c1048d2913
Author: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
AuthorDate: Sat Jul 12 00:55:38 2025 +0200

    kernel: Fix boot of amrsr target in qemu
    
    The bootup of the armsr target sometimes failed like this:
    ```
    [    0.762283] NET: Registered PF_INET6 protocol family
    [    0.791987] workqueue: Failed to create a worker thread: -EAGAIN
    [    0.801986] workqueue: Failed to create a rescuer kthread for wq "mld": -EAGAIN
    [    0.964017] NET: Unregistered PF_INET6 protocol family
    ```
    
    Increase the maximum number of threads the kernel allows.
    
    Link: https://github.com/openwrt/openwrt/pull/19376
    Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
---
 ...-Increase-minimum-number-of-allowed-threa.patch | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 ...-Increase-minimum-number-of-allowed-threa.patch | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++
 2 files changed, 74 insertions(+)

diff --git a/target/linux/generic/pending-6.12/250-kernel-fork-Increase-minimum-number-of-allowed-threa.patch b/target/linux/generic/pending-6.12/250-kernel-fork-Increase-minimum-number-of-allowed-threa.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5255a9cd76
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/generic/pending-6.12/250-kernel-fork-Increase-minimum-number-of-allowed-threa.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+From a22c4c7bbfad3e93e717e16f6faf343259add27a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
+Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:09:04 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH v2] kernel/fork: Increase minimum number of allowed threads
+
+A modern Linux system creates much more than 20 threads at bootup.
+When I booted up OpenWrt in qemu the system sometimes failed to boot up
+when it wanted to create the 419th thread. The VM had 128MB RAM and the
+calculation in set_max_threads() calculated that max_threads should be
+set to 419. When the system booted up it tried to notify the user space
+about every device it created because CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER was set and
+used. I counted 1299 calls to call_usermodehelper_setup(), all of
+them try to create a new thread and call the userspace hotplug script in
+it.
+
+This fixes bootup of Linux on systems with low memory.
+
+I saw the problem with qemu 10.0.2 using these commands:
+qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -cpu cortex-a57 -nographic
+
+Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
+Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
+---
+ kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/kernel/fork.c
++++ b/kernel/fork.c
+@@ -123,7 +123,7 @@
+ /*
+  * Minimum number of threads to boot the kernel
+  */
+-#define MIN_THREADS 20
++#define MIN_THREADS 600
+ 
+ /*
+  * Maximum number of threads
diff --git a/target/linux/generic/pending-6.6/250-kernel-fork-Increase-minimum-number-of-allowed-threa.patch b/target/linux/generic/pending-6.6/250-kernel-fork-Increase-minimum-number-of-allowed-threa.patch
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..17470b7a15
--- /dev/null
+++ b/target/linux/generic/pending-6.6/250-kernel-fork-Increase-minimum-number-of-allowed-threa.patch
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+From a22c4c7bbfad3e93e717e16f6faf343259add27a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
+From: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
+Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 11:09:04 +0100
+Subject: [PATCH v2] kernel/fork: Increase minimum number of allowed threads
+
+A modern Linux system creates much more than 20 threads at bootup.
+When I booted up OpenWrt in qemu the system sometimes failed to boot up
+when it wanted to create the 419th thread. The VM had 128MB RAM and the
+calculation in set_max_threads() calculated that max_threads should be
+set to 419. When the system booted up it tried to notify the user space
+about every device it created because CONFIG_UEVENT_HELPER was set and
+used. I counted 1299 calls to call_usermodehelper_setup(), all of
+them try to create a new thread and call the userspace hotplug script in
+it.
+
+This fixes bootup of Linux on systems with low memory.
+
+I saw the problem with qemu 10.0.2 using these commands:
+qemu-system-aarch64 -machine virt -cpu cortex-a57 -nographic
+
+Cc: stable at vger.kernel.org
+Signed-off-by: Hauke Mehrtens <hauke at hauke-m.de>
+---
+ kernel/fork.c | 2 +-
+ 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
+
+--- a/kernel/fork.c
++++ b/kernel/fork.c
+@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@
+ /*
+  * Minimum number of threads to boot the kernel
+  */
+-#define MIN_THREADS 20
++#define MIN_THREADS 600
+ 
+ /*
+  * Maximum number of threads




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