From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-wm0-f69.google.com (mail-wm0-f69.google.com [74.125.82.69]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6785D6B0069 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 09:36:16 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-wm0-f69.google.com with SMTP id 136so2175811wmu.10 for ; Wed, 18 Oct 2017 06:36:16 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Galois.linutronix.de (Galois.linutronix.de. [2a01:7a0:2:106d:700::1]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 60si4422787wrs.117.2017.10.18.06.36.15 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=AES128-SHA bits=128/128); Wed, 18 Oct 2017 06:36:15 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2017 15:36:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Thomas Gleixner Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] lockdep: Introduce CROSSRELEASE_STACK_TRACE and make it not unwind as default In-Reply-To: <20171018133019.cwfhnt46pvhirt57@gmail.com> Message-ID: References: <1508318006-2090-1-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com> <20171018133019.cwfhnt46pvhirt57@gmail.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Byungchul Park , peterz@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, kernel-team@lge.com On Wed, 18 Oct 2017, Ingo Molnar wrote: > * Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > On Wed, 18 Oct 2017, Byungchul Park wrote: > > > #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 > > > > Hmm. Would it be possible to have this switchable at boot time via a > > command line parameter? So in case of a splat with no stack trace, one > > could just reboot and set something like 'lockdep_fullstack' on the kernel > > command line to get the full data without having to recompile the kernel. > > Yeah, and I'd suggest keeping the Kconfig option to default-enable that boot > option as well - i.e. let's have both. That makes sense. Like we have with debug objects: DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT. Which reminds me that I wanted to convert them to static_key so they are zero overhead when disabled. Sigh, why are todo lists growth only? Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org