[PATCH v3 4/4] locktorture: With nested locks, occasionally skip main lock

John Stultz
2023-02-06T21:06:21Z

If we're using nested locking to stress things, occasionally
skip taking the main lock, so that we can get some different
contention patterns between the writers (to hopefully get two
disjoint blocked trees)

This patch was inspired by earlier work by Connor O'Brien.

Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Cc: Joel Fernandes <joel@joelfernandes.org>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <jstultz@google.com>
---
v3:
* Minor rework for naming changes suggested by Davidlohr Bueso
* Added comment explaining why we skip the main lock, as
suggested by Davidlohr Bueso
---
kernel/locking/locktorture.c | 37 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
1 file changed, 27 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/locktorture.c b/kernel/locking/locktorture.c
index fd8b2b007c26..ab896cc42b87 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/locktorture.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/locktorture.c
@@ -745,6 +745,7 @@ static int lock_torture_writer(void *arg)
int tid = lwsp - cxt.lwsa;
DEFINE_TORTURE_RANDOM(rand);
u32 lockset_mask;
+ bool skip_main_lock;

VERBOSE_TOROUT_STRING("lock_torture_writer task started");
set_user_nice(current, MAX_NICE);
@@ -754,21 +755,37 @@ static int lock_torture_writer(void *arg)
schedule_timeout_uninterruptible(1);

lockset_mask = torture_random(&rand);
+ /*
+ * When using nested_locks, we want to occasionally
+ * skip the main lock so we can avoid always serializing
+ * the lock chains on that central lock. By skipping the
+ * main lock occasionally, we can create different
+ * contention patterns (allowing for multiple disjoint
+ * blocked trees)
+ */
+ skip_main_lock = (nested_locks &&
+ !(torture_random(&rand) % 100));
+
cxt.cur_ops->task_boost(&rand);
if (cxt.cur_ops->nested_lock)
cxt.cur_ops->nested_lock(tid, lockset_mask);
- cxt.cur_ops->writelock(tid);
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(lock_is_write_held))
- lwsp->n_lock_fail++;
- lock_is_write_held = true;
- if (WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_read(&lock_is_read_held)))
- lwsp->n_lock_fail++; /* rare, but... */

- lwsp->n_lock_acquired++;
+ if (!skip_main_lock) {
+ cxt.cur_ops->writelock(tid);
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(lock_is_write_held))
+ lwsp->n_lock_fail++;
+ lock_is_write_held = true;
+ if (WARN_ON_ONCE(atomic_read(&lock_is_read_held)))
+ lwsp->n_lock_fail++; /* rare, but... */
+
+ lwsp->n_lock_acquired++;
+ }
cxt.cur_ops->write_delay(&rand);
- lock_is_write_held = false;
- WRITE_ONCE(last_lock_release, jiffies);
- cxt.cur_ops->writeunlock(tid);
+ if (!skip_main_lock) {
+ lock_is_write_held = false;
+ WRITE_ONCE(last_lock_release, jiffies);
+ cxt.cur_ops->writeunlock(tid);
+ }
if (cxt.cur_ops->nested_unlock)
cxt.cur_ops->nested_unlock(tid, lockset_mask);

--
2.39.1.519.gcb327c4b5f-goog