On Fri, 30 Mar 2018 17:30:31 -0400 Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'll take a look at si_mem_available() that Joel suggested and see if > we can make that work. Wow, this appears to work great! Joel and Zhaoyang, can you test this? -- Steve diff --git a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c index a2fd3893cc02..32a803626ee2 100644 --- a/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c +++ b/kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c @@ -1164,6 +1164,11 @@ static int __rb_allocate_pages(long nr_pages, struct list_head *pages, int cpu) struct buffer_page *bpage, *tmp; long i; + /* Check if the available memory is there first */ + i = si_mem_available(); + if (i < nr_pages) + return -ENOMEM; + for (i = 0; i < nr_pages; i++) { struct page *page; /*