mtd_blkdevs: avoid soft lockups with some mtd/spi devices
With some spi devices, the heavy cpu usage due to polling the spi registers may lead to netdev timeouts, RCU complaints, etc. This can be acute in the absence of CONFIG_PREEMPT. This patch allows to give enough breathing room to avoid those incorrectly detected netdev timeouts for example. Example splat on 5.10.92: [ 828.399306] rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU ... [ 828.419245] Task dump for CPU 1: [ 828.422465] task:kworker/1:1H state:R running task on cpu 1 stack: 0 pid: 76 ppid: 2 flags:0x0000002a [ 828.433132] Workqueue: kblockd blk_mq_run_work_fn [ 828.437820] Call trace: ... [ 828.512267] spi_mem_exec_op+0x4d0/0xde0 [ 828.516184] spi_mem_dirmap_read+0x180/0x39c [ 828.520443] spi_nor_read_data+0x428/0x7e8 [ 828.524523] spi_nor_read+0x154/0x214 [ 828.528172] mtd_read_oob+0x440/0x714 [ 828.531815] mtd_read+0xac/0x120 [ 828.535030] mtdblock_readsect+0x178/0x230 [ 828.539102] mtd_blktrans_work...
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