ftrace: Prevent RCU stall on PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY kernels

The function match_records() may take a while due to a large
number of string comparisons, so when in PREEMPT_VOLUNTARY
kernels we could face RCU stalls due to that.

Add a cond_resched() to prevent that.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221115204847.593616-1-gpiccoli@igalia.com
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Suggested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@kernel.org> # from RCU CPU stall warning perspective
Signed-off-by: Guilherme G. Piccoli <gpiccoli@igalia.com>
Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>

diff --git a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
index d04552c0c275d7d0fc136e9aeee1001310f5caf1..b8e374a372e58a3bd08f4c27e2065e34b77d7dcf 100644 (file)
--- a/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
+++ b/kernel/trace/ftrace.c
@@ -4204,6 +4204,7 @@ match_records(struct ftrace_hash *hash, char *func, int len, char *mod)
                        }
                        found = 1;
                }
+               cond_resched();
        } while_for_each_ftrace_rec();
  out_unlock:
        mutex_unlock(&ftrace_lock);