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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. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iIoEABYIADIWIQRRSw7ePDh/lE+zeZMp5XQQmuv6qgUCW6GGJhQccm9zdGVkdEBn b29kbWlzLm9yZwAKCRAp5XQQmuv6qo2dAQDN4SUsItEc28ij5vYKoP1mSLt8aax1 1UoIHrh1pTLUMQD+PSlbtZnUq27vfGwyEFrIWLQ5eeDy3IESkQzoXWcs0gY= =HpN3 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- 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."
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 Restructured Text markup notation.
See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file.
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.