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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Babu Moger <babu.moger@oracle.com>
Cc: mingo@redhat.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
	keescook@chromium.org, dan.j.williams@intel.com,
	aryabinin@virtuozzo.com, tj@kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Ajust lockdep static allocations
Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2016 09:12:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20160923071246.GJ2794@worktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1474569816-170269-1-git-send-email-babu.moger@oracle.com>

On Thu, Sep 22, 2016 at 11:43:34AM -0700, Babu Moger wrote:
> These patches adjust the static allocations for lockdep
> data structures used for debugging locking correctness. The current
> code reserves about 4MB extra space for these data structures. Most
> of the configurations do not need these many data structures. While
> testing, I have not seen it go beyond 20% of already reserved entries.
> 
> $grep "lock-classes" /proc/lockdep_stats
> 	lock-classes:                          1560 [max: 8191]
> 
> Reserving even more space seems unreasonable. So, keeping the default
> entries small as before the Commit 1413c0389333 ("lockdep: Increase static
> allocations"). Added new CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING_PLUS in case someone
> needs more entries to debug their large configuration.

Why make this more complicated? There's absolutely no upside to this
change as far as I can see.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2016-09-23  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-22 18:43 [PATCH 0/2] Ajust lockdep static allocations Babu Moger
2016-09-22 18:43 ` [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: Keep the default static allocations small Babu Moger
2016-09-22 18:43 ` [PATCH 2/2] config: Add new CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING_PLUS Babu Moger
2016-09-23  7:12 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2016-09-23 14:04   ` [PATCH 0/2] Ajust lockdep static allocations Babu Moger
2016-09-23 14:34     ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-23 14:50       ` Babu Moger
2016-09-23 15:04         ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-23 15:15           ` Babu Moger
2016-09-23 15:40             ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-23 19:57               ` Babu Moger
2016-09-23 20:08                 ` Rob Gardner
2016-09-23 20:17                 ` Peter Zijlstra
2016-09-23 20:30                   ` Babu Moger

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