From d08ab0f43ed9640e90e595e6cd10adbac028c76b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vaibhav Nagarnaik Date: Fri, 7 Sep 2018 15:31:29 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] 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 --- kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index c8eecc4d14c6..56bb79e6cf51 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -1495,6 +1495,8 @@ 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);