Re: lockdep: BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!

[Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>]

On 12/19/2013 10:59 AM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 04:51:21PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>   > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:39:57AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
>   > > That discusses lockdep classes, which is actually fine in my case. I ran out of
>   > > MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES, which isn't mentioned anywhere in Documentation/ .
>   >
>   > Yeah, it suffers from the same problem though. Lockdep has static
>   > resource allocation and never frees them.
>   >
>   > The lock classes are the smallest pool and usually run out first, but
>   > the same could happen for the entries, after all, the more classes we
>   > have the more class connections can happen.
>   >
>   > Anyway, barring a leak and silly class mistakes like mentioned in the
>   > document there's nothing we can do except raise the number.
>
> I tried this. When you bump it to 32k, it fares better but then you
> start seeing "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" instead.
> I've not tried bumping that yet, as I've stopped seeing these lately
> due to hitting more serious bugs first.

Yeah, I see what you're saying. After upping that to 32k I've hit MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES.

Going to try upping that and see how that goes.


Thanks,
Sasha