Request to backport 4929a4e6faa0 to stable tree

Hi Stable kernel maintainers,

I want to backport below patch to stable tree: 4929a4e6faa0 sched/fair: Scale bandwidth quota and period without losing quota/period ratio precision

This Email is to follow the option 2 [1] to submit patches to stable kernel.

This patch is fixing a real bug affecting Kubernetes users [2]. The bug (2e8e19226398 sched/fair: Limit sched_cfs_period_timer() loop to avoid hard lockup) was backported to all stable versions. So we need this fix to be backported to all stable versions as well.

Thanks! Xuewei

[1] https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/Documentation/process/stable-k... [2] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/issues/72878