From: Vaibhav Nagarnaik Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 22:31:29 +0000 (-0700) Subject: ring-buffer: Allow for rescheduling when removing pages X-Git-Tag: v4.14.73~31 X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=7eba38a3f65d3cec79dbe1f10166e9423d4074f4;p=users%2Fjedix%2Flinux-maple.git ring-buffer: Allow for rescheduling when removing pages commit 83f365554e47997ec68dc4eca3f5dce525cd15c3 upstream. When reducing ring buffer size, pages are removed by scheduling a work item on each CPU for the corresponding CPU ring buffer. After the pages are removed from ring buffer linked list, the pages are free()d in a tight loop. The loop does not give up CPU until all pages are removed. In a worst case behavior, when lot of pages are to be freed, it can cause system stall. After the pages are removed from the list, the free() can happen while the work is rescheduled. Call cond_resched() in the loop to prevent the system hangup. Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180907223129.71994-1-vnagarnaik@google.com Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 83f40318dab00 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic") Reported-by: Jason Behmer Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index fd7809004297..a1d5e0949dcf 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -1479,6 +1479,8 @@ rb_remove_pages(struct ring_buffer_per_cpu *cpu_buffer, unsigned long nr_pages) tmp_iter_page = first_page; do { + cond_resched(); + to_remove_page = tmp_iter_page; rb_inc_page(cpu_buffer, &tmp_iter_page);