[PATCH v3 2/8] lockdep: Introduce CROSSRELEASE_STACK_TRACE and make it not unwind as default

Byungchul Park
2017-10-24T09:40:09Z

Johan Hovold reported a performance regression by crossrelease like:

> Boot time (from "Linux version" to login prompt) had in fact doubled
> since 4.13 where it took 17 seconds (with my current config) compared to
> the 35 seconds I now see with 4.14-rc4.
>
> I quick bisect pointed to lockdep and specifically the following commit:
>
> 28a903f63ec0 ("locking/lockdep: Handle non(or multi)-acquisition
> of a crosslock")
>
> which I've verified is the commit which doubled the boot time (compared
> to 28a903f63ec0^) (added by lockdep crossrelease series [1]).

Currently crossrelease performs unwind on every acquisition. But, that
overloads systems too much. So this patch makes unwind optional and set
it to N as default. Instead, it records only acquire_ip normally. Of
course, unwind is sometimes required for full analysis. In that case, we
can set CROSSRELEASE_STACK_TRACE to Y and use it.

In my qemu ubuntu machin (x86_64, 4 cores, 512M), the regression was
fixed like, measuring booting times with 'perf stat --null --repeat 10
$QEMU', where $QEMU launchs a kernel with init=/bin/true:

1. No lockdep enabled

Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs):

2.756558155 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.09% )

2. Lockdep enabled

Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs):

2.968710420 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.12% )

3. Lockdep enabled + crossrelease enabled

Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs):

3.153839636 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.31% )

4. Lockdep enabled + crossrelease enabled + this patch applied

Performance counter stats for 'qemu_booting_time.sh bzImage' (10 runs):

2.963669551 seconds time elapsed ( +- 0.11% )

Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
---
include/linux/lockdep.h | 4 ++++
kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 5 +++++
lib/Kconfig.debug | 15 +++++++++++++++
3 files changed, 24 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/linux/lockdep.h b/include/linux/lockdep.h
index bfa8e0b..70358b5 100644
--- a/include/linux/lockdep.h
+++ b/include/linux/lockdep.h
@@ -278,7 +278,11 @@ struct held_lock {
};

#ifdef CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
+#ifdef CONFIG_CROSSRELEASE_STACK_TRACE
#define MAX_XHLOCK_TRACE_ENTRIES 5
+#else
+#define MAX_XHLOCK_TRACE_ENTRIES 1
+#endif

/*
* This is for keeping locks waiting for commit so that true dependencies
diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
index e36e652..5c2ddf2 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -4863,8 +4863,13 @@ static void add_xhlock(struct held_lock *hlock)
xhlock->trace.nr_entries = 0;
xhlock->trace.max_entries = MAX_XHLOCK_TRACE_ENTRIES;
xhlock->trace.entries = xhlock->trace_entries;
+#ifdef CONFIG_CROSSRELEASE_STACK_TRACE
xhlock->trace.skip = 3;
save_stack_trace(&xhlock->trace);
+#else
+ xhlock->trace.nr_entries = 1;
+ xhlock->trace.entries[0] = hlock->acquire_ip;
+#endif
}

static inline int same_context_xhlock(struct hist_lock *xhlock)
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 3db9167..90ea784 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1225,6 +1225,21 @@ config LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
A deadlock caused by wait_for_completion() and complete() can be
detected by lockdep using crossrelease feature.

+config CROSSRELEASE_STACK_TRACE
+ bool "Record more than one entity of stack trace in crossrelease"
+ depends on LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
+ default n
+ help
+ The lockdep "cross-release" feature needs to record stack traces
+ (of calling functions) for all acquisitions, for eventual later
+ use during analysis. By default only a single caller is recorded,
+ because the unwind operation can be very expensive with deeper
+ stack chains. However, sometimes deeper traces are required for
+ full analysis. This option turns on the saving of the full stack
+ trace entries.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP
--
1.9.1