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  1. 11 Aug, 2008 5 commits
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      lockdep: lock protection locks · 7531e2f3
      Peter Zijlstra authored 
      On Fri, 2008-08-01 at 16:26 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Fri, 1 Aug 2008, David Miller wrote:
> >
> > Taking more than a few locks of the same class at once is bad
> > news and it's better to find an alternative method.
>
> It's not always wrong.
>
> If you can guarantee that anybody that takes more than one lock of a
> particular class will always take a single top-level lock _first_, then
> that's all good. You can obviously screw up and take the same lock _twice_
> (which will deadlock), but at least you cannot get into ABBA situations.
>
> So maybe the right thing to do is to just teach lockdep about "lock
> protection locks". That would have solved the multi-queue issues for
> networking too - all the actual network drivers would still have taken
> just their single queue lock, but the one case that needs to take all of
> them would have taken a separate top-level lock first.
>
> Never mind that the multi-queue locks were always taken in the same order:
> it's never wrong to just have some top-level serialization, and anybody
> who needs to take <n> locks might as well do <n+1>, because they sure as
> hell aren't going to be on _any_ fastpaths.
>
> So the simplest solution really sounds like just teaching lockdep about
> that one special case. It's not "nesting" exactly, although it's obviously
> related to it.

Do as Linus suggested. The lock protection lock is called nest_lock.

Note that we still have the MAX_LOCK_DEPTH (48) limit to consider, so anything
that spills that it still up shit creek.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      7531e2f3
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      lockdep: map_acquire · 4f3e7524
      Peter Zijlstra authored 
      Most the free-standing lock_acquire() usages look remarkably similar, sweep
them into a new helper.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      4f3e7524
    • Dave Jones's avatar
      lockdep: shrink held_lock structure · f82b217e
      Dave Jones authored 
      struct held_lock {
        u64                        prev_chain_key;       /*     0     8 */
        struct lock_class *        class;                /*     8     8 */
        long unsigned int          acquire_ip;           /*    16     8 */
        struct lockdep_map *       instance;             /*    24     8 */
        int                        irq_context;          /*    32     4 */
        int                        trylock;              /*    36     4 */
        int                        read;                 /*    40     4 */
        int                        check;                /*    44     4 */
        int                        hardirqs_off;         /*    48     4 */

        /* size: 56, cachelines: 1 */
        /* padding: 4 */
        /* last cacheline: 56 bytes */
};

struct held_lock {
        u64                        prev_chain_key;       /*     0     8 */
        long unsigned int          acquire_ip;           /*     8     8 */
        struct lockdep_map *       instance;             /*    16     8 */
        unsigned int               class_idx:11;         /*    24:21  4 */
        unsigned int               irq_context:2;        /*    24:19  4 */
        unsigned int               trylock:1;            /*    24:18  4 */
        unsigned int               read:2;               /*    24:16  4 */
        unsigned int               check:2;              /*    24:14  4 */
        unsigned int               hardirqs_off:1;       /*    24:13  4 */

        /* size: 32, cachelines: 1 */
        /* padding: 4 */
        /* bit_padding: 13 bits */
        /* last cacheline: 32 bytes */
};

[mingo@elte.hu: shrunk hlock->class too]
[peterz@infradead.org: fixup bit sizes]
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
      f82b217e
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      lockdep: re-annotate scheduler runqueues · 1b12bbc7
      Peter Zijlstra authored 
      Instead of using a per-rq lock class, use the regular nesting operations.

However, take extra care with double_lock_balance() as it can release the
already held rq->lock (and therefore change its nesting class).

So what can happen is:

 spin_lock(rq->lock);	// this rq subclass 0

 double_lock_balance(rq, other_rq);
   // release rq
   // acquire other_rq->lock subclass 0
   // acquire rq->lock subclass 1

 spin_unlock(other_rq->lock);

leaving you with rq->lock in subclass 1

So a subsequent double_lock_balance() call can try to nest a subclass 1
lock while already holding a subclass 1 lock.

Fix this by introducing double_unlock_balance() which releases the other
rq's lock, but also re-sets the subclass for this rq's lock to 0.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      1b12bbc7
    • Peter Zijlstra's avatar
      lockdep: lock_set_subclass - reset a held lock's subclass · 64aa348e
      Peter Zijlstra authored 
      this can be used to reset a held lock's subclass, for arbitrary-depth
iterated data structures such as trees or lists which have per-node
locks.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      64aa348e
  3. 01 Aug, 2008 2 commits
  5. 31 Jul, 2008 1 commit
    • David Miller's avatar
      lockdep: fix combinatorial explosion in lock subgraph traversal · 419ca3f1
      David Miller authored 
      When we traverse the graph, either forwards or backwards, we
are interested in whether a certain property exists somewhere
in a node reachable in the graph.

Therefore it is never necessary to traverse through a node more
than once to get a correct answer to the given query.

Take advantage of this property using a global ID counter so that we
need not clear all the markers in all the lock_class entries before
doing a traversal.  A new ID is choosen when we start to traverse, and
we continue through a lock_class only if it's ID hasn't been marked
with the new value yet.

This short-circuiting is essential especially for high CPU count
systems.  The scheduler has a runqueue per cpu, and needs to take
two runqueue locks at a time, which leads to long chains of
backwards and forwards subgraphs from these runqueue lock nodes.
Without the short-circuit implemented here, a graph traversal on
a runqueue lock can take up to (1 << (N - 1)) checks on a system
with N cpus.

For anything more than 16 cpus or so, lockdep will eventually bring
the machine to a complete standstill.
Signed-off-by: default avatarDavid S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
      419ca3f1
  7. 29 Jul, 2008 6 commits
  9. 28 Jul, 2008 26 commits