Commit f6bd2c92 authored by Zheng Yejian's avatar Zheng Yejian Committed by Steven Rostedt (Google)

ring-buffer: Avoid softlockup in ring_buffer_resize()

When user resize all trace ring buffer through file 'buffer_size_kb',
then in ring_buffer_resize(), kernel allocates buffer pages for each
cpu in a loop.

If the kernel preemption model is PREEMPT_NONE and there are many cpus
and there are many buffer pages to be allocated, it may not give up cpu
for a long time and finally cause a softlockup.

To avoid it, call cond_resched() after each cpu buffer allocation.

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20230906081930.3939106-1-zhengyejian1@huawei.com

Cc: <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZheng Yejian <zhengyejian1@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
parent e5c624f0
......@@ -2198,6 +2198,8 @@ int ring_buffer_resize(struct trace_buffer *buffer, unsigned long size,
err = -ENOMEM;
goto out_err;
}
cond_resched();
}
cpus_read_lock();
......
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