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Reading the ring buffer does a swap of a sub-buffer within the ring buffer with a empty sub-buffer. This allows the reader to have full access to the content of the sub-buffer that was swapped out without having to worry about contention with the writer. The readers call ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() to allocate a page that will be used to swap with the ring buffer. When the code is finished with the reader page, it calls ring_buffer_free_read_page(). Instead of freeing the page, it stores it as a spare. Then next call to ring_buffer_alloc_read_page() will return this spare instead of calling into the memory management system to allocate a new page. Unfortunately, on freeing of the ring buffer, this spare page is not freed, and causes a memory leak. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/linux-trace-kernel/20231210221250.7b9cc83c@rorschach.local.home Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> Fixes: 73a757e63114d ("ring-buffer: Return reader page back into existing ring buffer") Acked-by: Masami Hiramatsu (Google) <mhiramat@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.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.