Re: [PATCH] lockdep: lock contention tracking

[Bill Huey (hui) <billh@gnuppy.monkey.org>]

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:50:13AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Have you looked at the output Peter's patch produces? It prints out 
> precise symbols:
> 
>  dcache_lock: 3000 0 [618] [<ffffffff8033badd>] _atomic_dec_and_lock+0x39/0x58
> 
> which can easily be turned into line numbers using debuginfo packages or 
> using gdb. (But normally one only needs the symbol name, and we 
> certainly do not want to burden the kernel source with tracking 
> __FILE__/__LINE__ metadata, if the same is already available via 
> CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO.)
> 
> anything else?

If his hashing scheme can produce precise locations of where locks are
initialized both by a initializer function or a statically allocated
object then my code is baroque and you should use Peter's code.

I write lockstat without the knowledge that lockdep was replicating the
same work and I audited 1600 something lock points in the kernel to
convert the usage of C99 style initializers to something more regular.

I also did this without consideration of things like debuginfo since
I don't use those things.

> > [...] My stuff is potentially more extensible since I have other ideas 
> > for it that really are outside of the lockdep logic currently. [...]
> 
> what do you mean, specifically?

Better if I show you the patches in the future instead of saying now.

> i really need specifics. Currently i have the choice between your stuff:
> 
>    17 files changed, 1425 insertions(+), 80 deletions(-)
> 
> and Peter's patch:
> 
>     6 files changed,  266 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
> 
> and Peter's patch (if it works out fine in testing - and it seemed fine 
> so far on my testbox), is smaller, more maintainable, better integrated 
> and thus the clear candidate for merging into -rt and merging upstream 
> as well. It's far cleaner than i hoped this whole lock-stats thing could 
> be done based on lockdep, so i'm pretty happy with Peter's current patch 
> already.

If it meets your criteria and what you mentioned about is completely
accurate, then use it instead of mine. I'll just finish up what I have
done with reader tracking in my lockstat and migrate my -rt specific
goodies to his infrastructure.

bill