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authorZheng Yejian <zhengyejian@huaweicloud.com>2024-08-27 20:46:54 +0800
committerSteven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>2024-09-05 10:18:48 -0400
commit49aa8a1f4d6800721c7971ed383078257f12e8f9 (patch)
tree59e72d4260bf75cc3d79a91feaa408a68f51b8b1
parentbc754cc76d1bbc87be5d8b7eee05ceb0ae613bce (diff)
tracing: Avoid possible softlockup in tracing_iter_reset()
In __tracing_open(), when max latency tracers took place on the cpu, the time start of its buffer would be updated, then event entries with timestamps being earlier than start of the buffer would be skipped (see tracing_iter_reset()). Softlockup will occur if the kernel is non-preemptible and too many entries were skipped in the loop that reset every cpu buffer, so add cond_resched() to avoid it. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: 2f26ebd549b9a ("tracing: use timestamp to determine start of latency traces") Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20240827124654.3817443-1-zhengyejian@huaweicloud.com Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Zheng Yejian <zhengyejian@huaweicloud.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
-rw-r--r--kernel/trace/trace.c2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/trace/trace.c b/kernel/trace/trace.c
index ebe7ce2f5f4a..edf6bc817aa1 100644
--- a/kernel/trace/trace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/trace.c
@@ -3958,6 +3958,8 @@ void tracing_iter_reset(struct trace_iterator *iter, int cpu)
break;
entries++;
ring_buffer_iter_advance(buf_iter);
+ /* This could be a big loop */
+ cond_resched();
}
per_cpu_ptr(iter->array_buffer->data, cpu)->skipped_entries = entries;