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: 7452527f5cb83 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic")
Reported-by: Jason Behmer <jbehmer@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <vnagarnaik@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
index 1d92d4a982fd468385b4b81b145d6e6353a766d4..65bd4616220db72b5e817cd0d1fdf1d4958a9501 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c
@@ -1546,6 +1546,8 @@ 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);