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The function rb_check_pages() validates the integrity of a specified per-CPU tracing ring buffer. It does so by traversing the underlying linked list and checking its next and prev links. To guarantee that the list isn't modified during the check, a caller typically needs to take cpu_buffer->reader_lock. This prevents the check from running concurrently, for example, with a potential reader which can make the list temporarily inconsistent when swapping its old reader page into the buffer. A problem with this approach is that the time when interrupts are disabled is non-deterministic, dependent on the ring buffer size. This particularly affects PREEMPT_RT because the reader_lock is a raw spinlock which doesn't become sleepable on PREEMPT_RT kernels. Modify the check so it still attempts to traverse the entire list, but gives up the reader_lock between checking individual pages. Introduce for this purpose a new variable ring_buffer_per_cpu.cnt which is bumped any time the list is modified. The value is used by rb_check_pages() to detect such a change and restart the check. Cc: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/20241015112810.27203-1-petr.pavlu@suse.com Signed-off-by: Petr Pavlu <petr.pavlu@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Linux kernel
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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.