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Commit 83f36555 authored by Vaibhav Nagarnaik's avatar Vaibhav Nagarnaik Committed by Steven Rostedt (VMware)
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ring-buffer: Allow for rescheduling when removing pages

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: 83f40318 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic")
Reported-by: default avatarJason Behmer <jbehmer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarVaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent 7876320f
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