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/[email protected]

Cc: [email protected]
Fixes: 83f4031 ("ring-buffer: Make removal of ring buffer pages atomic")
Reported-by: Jason Behmer <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Vaibhav Nagarnaik <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <[email protected]>

Author: vnagarnaik

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);