a huge latency in the system because it does a while loop to free pages
without releasing the CPU (on non preempt kernels). In a case where there
are hundreds of thousands of pages to free it could actually cause a system
stall. A properly place cond_resched() solves this issue.
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Merge tag 'trace-v4.19-rc4' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-trace
Steven writes:
"Vaibhav Nagarnaik found that modifying the ring buffer size could cause
a huge latency in the system because it does a while loop to free pages
without releasing the CPU (on non preempt kernels). In a case where there
are hundreds of thousands of pages to free it could actually cause a system
stall. A properly place cond_resched() solves this issue."
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