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[ Upstream commit13791c80b0] If message sizes average larger than expected (more than 32 characters), the data_ring will wrap before the desc_ring. Once the data_ring wraps, it will start invalidating descriptors. These invalid descriptors hang around until they are eventually recycled when the desc_ring wraps. Readers do not care about invalid descriptors, but they still need to iterate past them. If the average message size is much larger than 32 characters, then there will be many invalid descriptors preceding the valid descriptors. The function prb_first_valid_seq() always begins at the oldest descriptor and searches for the first valid descriptor. This can be rather expensive for the above scenario. And, in fact, because of its heavy usage in /dev/kmsg, there have been reports of long delays and even RCU stalls. For code that does not need to search from the oldest record, replace prb_first_valid_seq() usage with prb_read_valid_*() functions, which provide a start sequence number to search from. Fixes:896fbe20b4("printk: use the lockless ringbuffer") Reported-by: kernel test robot <oliver.sang@intel.com> Reported-by: J. Avila <elavila@google.com> Signed-off-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210211173152.1629-1-john.ogness@linutronix.de Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@kernel.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 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.