linux/lib/debug_locks.c
Waiman Long 9506a7425b locking/lockdep: Fix debug_locks off performance problem
It was found that when debug_locks was turned off because of a problem
found by the lockdep code, the system performance could drop quite
significantly when the lock_stat code was also configured into the
kernel. For instance, parallel kernel build time on a 4-socket x86-64
server nearly doubled.

Further analysis into the cause of the slowdown traced back to the
frequent call to debug_locks_off() from the __lock_acquired() function
probably due to some inconsistent lockdep states with debug_locks
off. The debug_locks_off() function did an unconditional atomic xchg
to write a 0 value into debug_locks which had already been set to 0.
This led to severe cacheline contention in the cacheline that held
debug_locks.  As debug_locks is being referenced in quite a few different
places in the kernel, this greatly slow down the system performance.

To prevent that trashing of debug_locks cacheline, lock_acquired()
and lock_contended() now checks the state of debug_locks before
proceeding. The debug_locks_off() function is also modified to check
debug_locks before calling __debug_locks_off().

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1539913518-15598-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2018-10-19 07:53:17 +02:00

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/*
* lib/debug_locks.c
*
* Generic place for common debugging facilities for various locks:
* spinlocks, rwlocks, mutexes and rwsems.
*
* Started by Ingo Molnar:
*
* Copyright (C) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
*/
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/export.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/debug_locks.h>
/*
* We want to turn all lock-debugging facilities on/off at once,
* via a global flag. The reason is that once a single bug has been
* detected and reported, there might be cascade of followup bugs
* that would just muddy the log. So we report the first one and
* shut up after that.
*/
int debug_locks = 1;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debug_locks);
/*
* The locking-testsuite uses <debug_locks_silent> to get a
* 'silent failure': nothing is printed to the console when
* a locking bug is detected.
*/
int debug_locks_silent;
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debug_locks_silent);
/*
* Generic 'turn off all lock debugging' function:
*/
int debug_locks_off(void)
{
if (debug_locks && __debug_locks_off()) {
if (!debug_locks_silent) {
console_verbose();
return 1;
}
}
return 0;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debug_locks_off);