From: Jim Cromie via B4 Relay <devnull+jim.cromie.gmail.com@kernel.org>
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Subject: [PATCH 8/9] locking/lockdep: Shrink static list_entries array to early bootstrap buffer
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:22:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260817-folio-pool-v1-v1-8-0c1d230aa3af@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260817-folio-pool-v1-v1-0-0c1d230aa3af@gmail.com>
From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Shrink the static compile-time list_entries[] array and its tracking
bitmap from MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES (32,768 entries, ~1.31 MB BSS) down to
a 4096-entry early boot bootstrap buffer (~160 KB BSS).
During early boot before mem_init(), lockdep records initial spinlock
dependencies in the static bootstrap buffer. Once the buddy page
allocator is online, alloc_list_entry() seamlessly spills all subsequent
lock dependency allocations directly into lockdep_pool in 64KB direct-map
folios.
Adds a core_initcall telemetry hook (lockdep_boot_report) to log the
exact count of bootstrap entries consumed prior to buddy initialization.
Empirical boot telemetry confirms zero regressions and validates the
two-tier spillway on x86 SMP:
- Pre-buddy watermark: 668/4096 bootstrap entries consumed (16.3%).
- Post-buddy scaling: 5,058 total direct dependencies and 22,577
indirect paths validated, with 962 entries operating dynamically
inside lockdep_pool direct-map folios.
Reclaims ~1.15 MB of static unswappable kernel .bss memory (88% reduction)
while enabling unbounded lockdep scaling on dense NUMA/container workloads.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index c8975c9282bb..5968a976bf8e 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -229,9 +229,11 @@ static inline int debug_locks_off_graph_unlock(void)
return ret;
}
+#define BOOTSTRAP_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES 4096UL
+
unsigned long nr_list_entries;
-static struct lock_list list_entries[MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES];
-static DECLARE_BITMAP(list_entries_in_use, MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES);
+static struct lock_list list_entries[BOOTSTRAP_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES];
+static DECLARE_BITMAP(list_entries_in_use, BOOTSTRAP_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES);
/*
* All data structures here are protected by the global debug_lock.
@@ -6271,6 +6273,12 @@ static void remove_class_from_lock_chains(struct pending_free *pf,
}
}
+static inline bool is_bootstrap_entry(const struct lock_list *entry)
+{
+ return entry >= list_entries &&
+ entry < list_entries + ARRAY_SIZE(list_entries);
+}
+
/*
* Remove all references to a lock class. The caller must hold the graph lock.
*/
@@ -6287,26 +6295,30 @@ static void zap_class(struct pending_free *pf, struct lock_class *class)
list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, tmp, &class->locks_after, entry) {
list_for_each_entry_safe(other, other_tmp, &entry->links_to->locks_before, entry) {
if (other->links_to == class) {
- __clear_bit(other - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
+ if (is_bootstrap_entry(other))
+ __clear_bit(other - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
nr_list_entries--;
list_del_rcu(&other->entry);
break;
}
}
- __clear_bit(entry - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
+ if (is_bootstrap_entry(entry))
+ __clear_bit(entry - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
nr_list_entries--;
list_del_rcu(&entry->entry);
}
list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, tmp, &class->locks_before, entry) {
list_for_each_entry_safe(other, other_tmp, &entry->links_to->locks_after, entry) {
if (other->links_to == class) {
- __clear_bit(other - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
+ if (is_bootstrap_entry(other))
+ __clear_bit(other - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
nr_list_entries--;
list_del_rcu(&other->entry);
break;
}
}
- __clear_bit(entry - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
+ if (is_bootstrap_entry(entry))
+ __clear_bit(entry - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
nr_list_entries--;
list_del_rcu(&entry->entry);
}
@@ -6718,6 +6730,15 @@ void __init lockdep_init(void)
sizeof(((struct task_struct *)NULL)->held_locks));
}
+static int __init lockdep_boot_report(void)
+{
+ pr_info("lockdep: %lu/%lu bootstrap entries used before buddy init, folio_pool active\n",
+ min_t(unsigned long, nr_list_entries, ARRAY_SIZE(list_entries)),
+ ARRAY_SIZE(list_entries));
+ return 0;
+}
+core_initcall(lockdep_boot_report);
+
static void
print_freed_lock_bug(struct task_struct *curr, const void *mem_from,
const void *mem_to, struct held_lock *hlock)
--
2.55.0
WARNING: multiple messages have this Message-ID (diff)
From: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
To: "Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Pablo Neira Ayuso" <pablo@netfilter.org>,
"Florian Westphal" <fw@strlen.de>, "Phil Sutter" <phil@nwl.cc>,
"Alexei Starovoitov" <ast@kernel.org>,
"Daniel Borkmann" <daniel@iogearbox.net>,
"Andrii Nakryiko" <andrii@kernel.org>,
"Eduard Zingerman" <eddyz87@gmail.com>,
"Danilo Krummrich" <dakr@kernel.org>,
"Matthew Brost" <matthew.brost@intel.com>,
"Boris Brezillon" <boris.brezillon@collabora.com>,
"Peter Zijlstra" <peterz@infradead.org>,
"Ingo Molnar" <mingo@redhat.com>, "Will Deacon" <will@kernel.org>,
"Waiman Long" <longman@redhat.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
"Eric Dumazet" <edumazet@google.com>,
"Jakub Kicinski" <kuba@kernel.org>,
"Paolo Abeni" <pabeni@redhat.com>,
"Simon Horman" <horms@kernel.org>,
"Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi" <memxor@gmail.com>,
"Martin KaFai Lau" <martin.lau@linux.dev>,
"Song Liu" <song@kernel.org>,
"Yonghong Song" <yonghong.song@linux.dev>,
"Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@kernel.org>,
"Emil Tsalapatis" <emil@etsalapatis.com>,
"John Fastabend" <john.fastabend@gmail.com>,
"Thomas Hellström" <thomas.hellstrom@linux.intel.com>,
"Alice Ryhl" <aliceryhl@google.com>,
"Maarten Lankhorst" <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com>,
"Maxime Ripard" <mripard@kernel.org>,
"Thomas Zimmermann" <tzimmermann@suse.de>,
"David Airlie" <airlied@gmail.com>,
"Simona Vetter" <simona@ffwll.ch>,
"Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>, "Boqun Feng" <boqun@kernel.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, bpf@vger.kernel.org,
dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, coreteam@netfilter.org,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
Subject: [PATCH 8/9] locking/lockdep: Shrink static list_entries array to early bootstrap buffer
Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2026 11:22:22 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260817-folio-pool-v1-v1-8-0c1d230aa3af@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260817-folio-pool-v1-v1-0-0c1d230aa3af@gmail.com>
Shrink the static compile-time list_entries[] array and its tracking
bitmap from MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES (32,768 entries, ~1.31 MB BSS) down to
a 4096-entry early boot bootstrap buffer (~160 KB BSS).
During early boot before mem_init(), lockdep records initial spinlock
dependencies in the static bootstrap buffer. Once the buddy page
allocator is online, alloc_list_entry() seamlessly spills all subsequent
lock dependency allocations directly into lockdep_pool in 64KB direct-map
folios.
Adds a core_initcall telemetry hook (lockdep_boot_report) to log the
exact count of bootstrap entries consumed prior to buddy initialization.
Empirical boot telemetry confirms zero regressions and validates the
two-tier spillway on x86 SMP:
- Pre-buddy watermark: 668/4096 bootstrap entries consumed (16.3%).
- Post-buddy scaling: 5,058 total direct dependencies and 22,577
indirect paths validated, with 962 entries operating dynamically
inside lockdep_pool direct-map folios.
Reclaims ~1.15 MB of static unswappable kernel .bss memory (88% reduction)
while enabling unbounded lockdep scaling on dense NUMA/container workloads.
Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com>
---
kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 33 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index c8975c9282bb..5968a976bf8e 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -229,9 +229,11 @@ static inline int debug_locks_off_graph_unlock(void)
return ret;
}
+#define BOOTSTRAP_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES 4096UL
+
unsigned long nr_list_entries;
-static struct lock_list list_entries[MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES];
-static DECLARE_BITMAP(list_entries_in_use, MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES);
+static struct lock_list list_entries[BOOTSTRAP_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES];
+static DECLARE_BITMAP(list_entries_in_use, BOOTSTRAP_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES);
/*
* All data structures here are protected by the global debug_lock.
@@ -6271,6 +6273,12 @@ static void remove_class_from_lock_chains(struct pending_free *pf,
}
}
+static inline bool is_bootstrap_entry(const struct lock_list *entry)
+{
+ return entry >= list_entries &&
+ entry < list_entries + ARRAY_SIZE(list_entries);
+}
+
/*
* Remove all references to a lock class. The caller must hold the graph lock.
*/
@@ -6287,26 +6295,30 @@ static void zap_class(struct pending_free *pf, struct lock_class *class)
list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, tmp, &class->locks_after, entry) {
list_for_each_entry_safe(other, other_tmp, &entry->links_to->locks_before, entry) {
if (other->links_to == class) {
- __clear_bit(other - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
+ if (is_bootstrap_entry(other))
+ __clear_bit(other - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
nr_list_entries--;
list_del_rcu(&other->entry);
break;
}
}
- __clear_bit(entry - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
+ if (is_bootstrap_entry(entry))
+ __clear_bit(entry - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
nr_list_entries--;
list_del_rcu(&entry->entry);
}
list_for_each_entry_safe(entry, tmp, &class->locks_before, entry) {
list_for_each_entry_safe(other, other_tmp, &entry->links_to->locks_after, entry) {
if (other->links_to == class) {
- __clear_bit(other - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
+ if (is_bootstrap_entry(other))
+ __clear_bit(other - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
nr_list_entries--;
list_del_rcu(&other->entry);
break;
}
}
- __clear_bit(entry - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
+ if (is_bootstrap_entry(entry))
+ __clear_bit(entry - list_entries, list_entries_in_use);
nr_list_entries--;
list_del_rcu(&entry->entry);
}
@@ -6718,6 +6730,15 @@ void __init lockdep_init(void)
sizeof(((struct task_struct *)NULL)->held_locks));
}
+static int __init lockdep_boot_report(void)
+{
+ pr_info("lockdep: %lu/%lu bootstrap entries used before buddy init, folio_pool active\n",
+ min_t(unsigned long, nr_list_entries, ARRAY_SIZE(list_entries)),
+ ARRAY_SIZE(list_entries));
+ return 0;
+}
+core_initcall(lockdep_boot_report);
+
static void
print_freed_lock_bug(struct task_struct *curr, const void *mem_from,
const void *mem_to, struct held_lock *hlock)
--
2.55.0
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2026-08-17 17:22 ` [PATCH 2/9] netfilter/nf_tables: Add folio_scratchpad collector to struct nftables_pernet Jim Cromie via B4 Relay
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