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Wupeng Ma 151589d15e ring-buffer: Avoid softlockup in ring_buffer_resize() during memory free
[ Upstream commit 6435ffd6c7 ]

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 freed, 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 free as Commit
f6bd2c9248 ("ring-buffer: Avoid softlockup in ring_buffer_resize()")
does.

Detailed call trace as follow:

  rcu: INFO: rcu_sched self-detected stall on CPU
  rcu: 	24-....: (14837 ticks this GP) idle=521c/1/0x4000000000000000 softirq=230597/230597 fqs=5329
  rcu: 	(t=15004 jiffies g=26003221 q=211022 ncpus=96)
  CPU: 24 UID: 0 PID: 11253 Comm: bash Kdump: loaded Tainted: G            EL      6.18.2+ #278 NONE
  pc : arch_local_irq_restore+0x8/0x20
   arch_local_irq_restore+0x8/0x20 (P)
   free_frozen_page_commit+0x28c/0x3b0
   __free_frozen_pages+0x1c0/0x678
   ___free_pages+0xc0/0xe0
   free_pages+0x3c/0x50
   ring_buffer_resize.part.0+0x6a8/0x880
   ring_buffer_resize+0x3c/0x58
   __tracing_resize_ring_buffer.part.0+0x34/0xd8
   tracing_resize_ring_buffer+0x8c/0xd0
   tracing_entries_write+0x74/0xd8
   vfs_write+0xcc/0x288
   ksys_write+0x74/0x118
   __arm64_sys_write+0x24/0x38

Cc: <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Link: https://patch.msgid.link/20251228065008.2396573-1-mawupeng1@huawei.com
Signed-off-by: Wupeng Ma <mawupeng1@huawei.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
History 2026-02-11 13:41:50 +01:00
arch x86/sev: Disable GCOV on noinstr object 2026-02-11 13:41:48 +01:00
block block,bfq: fix aux stat accumulation destination 2026-02-11 13:41:47 +01:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: authencesn - reject too-short AAD (assoclen<8) to match ESP/ESN spec 2026-01-30 10:32:12 +01:00
Documentation fou: Don't allow 0 for FOU_ATTR_IPPROTO. 2026-01-30 10:32:12 +01:00
drivers drm/amd/pm: Disable MMIO access during SMU Mode 1 reset 2026-02-11 13:41:50 +01:00
fs btrfs: fix reservation leak in some error paths when inserting inline extent 2026-02-11 13:41:48 +01:00
include ceph: fix NULL pointer dereference in ceph_mds_auth_match() 2026-02-11 13:41:42 +01:00
init printk changes for 6.18 2025-10-04 11:13:11 -07:00
io_uring io_uring: use GFP_NOWAIT for overflow CQEs on legacy rings 2026-02-11 13:41:47 +01:00
ipc namespace-6.18-rc1 2025-09-29 11:20:29 -07:00
kernel ring-buffer: Avoid softlockup in ring_buffer_resize() during memory free 2026-02-11 13:41:50 +01:00
lib procfs: avoid fetching build ID while holding VMA lock 2026-02-11 13:41:41 +01:00
LICENSES LICENSES: Replace the obsolete address of the FSF in the GFDL-1.2 2025-07-24 11:15:39 +02:00
mm mm, shmem: prevent infinite loop on truncate race 2026-02-11 13:41:43 +01:00
net netfilter: replace -EEXIST with -EBUSY 2026-02-11 13:41:49 +01:00
rust rust: sync: refcount: always inline functions using build_assert with arguments 2026-02-06 16:57:41 +01:00
samples samples/ftrace: Adjust LoongArch register restore order in direct calls 2026-01-08 10:17:11 +01:00
scripts scripts: generate_rust_analyzer: Add compiler_builtins -> core dep 2026-02-06 16:57:42 +01:00
security keys/trusted_keys: fix handle passed to tpm_buf_append_name during unseal 2026-01-30 10:32:22 +01:00
sound ALSA: hda/realtek: add HP Laptop 15s-eq1xxx mute LED quirk 2026-02-11 13:41:49 +01:00
tools KVM: selftests: Add -U_FORTIFY_SOURCE to avoid some unpredictable test failures 2026-02-11 13:41:44 +01:00
usr gen_init_cpio: Ignore fsync() returning EINVAL on pipes 2025-10-07 09:53:05 -07:00
virt KVM: Don't clobber irqfd routing type when deassigning irqfd 2026-02-11 13:41:44 +01:00
.clang-format memblock: drop for_each_free_mem_pfn_range_in_zone_from() 2025-09-14 08:49:03 +03:00
.clippy.toml rust: clean Rust 1.88.0's warning about clippy::disallowed_macros configuration 2025-05-07 00:11:47 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: remove Alyssa Rosenzweig 2025-09-18 21:17:31 +02:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore .gitignore: ignore compile_commands.json globally 2025-08-12 15:53:55 -07:00
.mailmap 8 hotfixes. 4 are cc:stable, 7 are against mm/. 2025-11-26 12:38:05 -08:00
.pylintrc tools: docs: parse-headers.py: move it from sphinx dir 2025-08-29 15:54:42 -06:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: mark ISDN subsystem as orphan 2025-10-27 17:49:45 -07:00
Kbuild sched: Make migrate_{en,dis}able() inline 2025-09-25 09:57:16 +02:00
Kconfig io_uring: Rename KConfig to Kconfig 2025-02-19 14:53:27 -07:00
MAINTAINERS soc: fixes for 6.18, part 4 2025-11-28 09:57:31 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.18.9 2026-02-06 16:57:45 +01:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.