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commit 51d157946666382e779f94c39891e8e9a020da78 upstream. The resetting of the entire ring buffer use to simply go through and reset each individual CPU buffer that had its own protection and synchronization. But this was very slow, due to performing a synchronization for each CPU. The code was reshuffled to do one disabling of all CPU buffers, followed by a single RCU synchronization, and then the resetting of each of the CPU buffers. But unfortunately, the mutex that prevented multiple occurrences of resetting the buffer was not moved to the upper function, and there is nothing to protect from it. Take the ring buffer mutex around the global reset. Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Fixes: b23d7a5f4a07a ("ring-buffer: speed up buffer resets by avoiding synchronize_rcu for each CPU") Reported-by: "Tzvetomir Stoyanov (VMware)" <tz.stoyanov@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
Linux kernel
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Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
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There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text 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.