Re: [PATCH 1/2] locking: Add lock contention tracepoints

[Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>]

On Wed, 16 Mar 2022 15:45:47 -0700
Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> wrote:

> This adds two new lock contention tracepoints like below:
> 
>  * lock:contention_begin
>  * lock:contention_end
> 
> The lock:contention_begin takes a flags argument to classify locks.  I
> found it useful to identify what kind of locks it's tracing like if
> it's spinning or sleeping, reader-writer lock, real-time, and per-cpu.
> 
> Move tracepoint definitions into mutex.c so that we can use them
> without lockdep.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org>
> ---
>  include/trace/events/lock.h | 54 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
>  kernel/locking/lockdep.c    |  1 -
>  kernel/locking/mutex.c      |  3 +++
>  3 files changed, 54 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/include/trace/events/lock.h b/include/trace/events/lock.h
> index d7512129a324..2a3df36d4fdb 100644
> --- a/include/trace/events/lock.h
> +++ b/include/trace/events/lock.h
> @@ -5,11 +5,21 @@
>  #if !defined(_TRACE_LOCK_H) || defined(TRACE_HEADER_MULTI_READ)
>  #define _TRACE_LOCK_H
>  
> -#include <linux/lockdep.h>
> +#include <linux/sched.h>
>  #include <linux/tracepoint.h>
>  
> +/* flags for lock:contention_begin */
> +#define LCB_F_SPIN	(1U << 0)
> +#define LCB_F_READ	(1U << 1)
> +#define LCB_F_WRITE	(1U << 2)
> +#define LCB_F_RT	(1U << 3)
> +#define LCB_F_PERCPU	(1U << 4)
> +
> +
>  #ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP
>  
> +#include <linux/lockdep.h>
> +
>  TRACE_EVENT(lock_acquire,
>  
>  	TP_PROTO(struct lockdep_map *lock, unsigned int subclass,
> @@ -78,8 +88,46 @@ DEFINE_EVENT(lock, lock_acquired,
>  	TP_ARGS(lock, ip)
>  );
>  
> -#endif
> -#endif
> +#endif /* CONFIG_LOCK_STAT */
> +#endif /* CONFIG_LOCKDEP */
> +
> +TRACE_EVENT(contention_begin,
> +
> +	TP_PROTO(void *lock, unsigned int flags),
> +
> +	TP_ARGS(lock, flags),
> +
> +	TP_STRUCT__entry(
> +		__field(void *, lock_addr)
> +		__field(unsigned int, flags)
> +	),
> +
> +	TP_fast_assign(
> +		__entry->lock_addr = lock;
> +		__entry->flags = flags;
> +	),
> +
> +	TP_printk("%p (flags=%x)", __entry->lock_addr, __entry->flags)

Perhaps make this into:

	TP_printk("%p (flags=%s)", __entry->lock_addr,
		__print_flags(__entry->flags, "|",
			{LCB_F_SPIN,   "spin" },
			{LCB_F_READ,   "read" },
			{LCB_F_WRITE,  "write" },
			{LCB_F_RT,     "rt" },
			{LCB_F_PERCPU, "percpu" }
			))

That way, the use doesn't need to figure out what the numbers mean.

-- Steve

			
> +);
> +
> +TRACE_EVENT(contention_end,
> +
> +	TP_PROTO(void *lock, int ret),
> +
> +	TP_ARGS(lock, ret),
> +
> +	TP_STRUCT__entry(
> +		__field(void *, lock_addr)
> +		__field(int, ret)
> +	),
> +
> +	TP_fast_assign(
> +		__entry->lock_addr = lock;
> +		__entry->ret = ret;
> +	),
> +
> +	TP_printk("%p (ret=%d)", __entry->lock_addr, __entry->ret)
> +);
>  
>  #endif /* _TRACE_LOCK_H */
>  
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> index 50036c10b518..08f8fb6a2d1e 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
> @@ -60,7 +60,6 @@
>  
>  #include "lockdep_internals.h"
>  
> -#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
>  #include <trace/events/lock.h>
>  
>  #ifdef CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING
> diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex.c b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
> index 5e3585950ec8..ee2fd7614a93 100644
> --- a/kernel/locking/mutex.c
> +++ b/kernel/locking/mutex.c
> @@ -30,6 +30,9 @@
>  #include <linux/debug_locks.h>
>  #include <linux/osq_lock.h>
>  
> +#define CREATE_TRACE_POINTS
> +#include <trace/events/lock.h>
> +
>  #ifndef CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT
>  #include "mutex.h"
>