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Byungchul Park d141babe42 locking/lockdep: Add a boot parameter allowing unwind in cross-release and disable it by default
Johan Hovold reported a heavy performance regression caused by lockdep
cross-release:

 > 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:
 >
 >	28a903f63e ("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 cross-release performs unwind on every acquisition, but that
is very expensive.

This patch makes unwind optional and disables it by default and only
records acquire_ip.

Full stack traces are sometimes required for full analysis, in which
case a boot paramter, crossrelease_fullstack, can be specified.

On my qemu Ubuntu machine (x86_64, 4 cores, 512M), the regression was
fixed. We measure boot times with 'perf stat --null --repeat 10 $QEMU',
where $QEMU launches 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 + cross-release enabled:

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

       3.153839636 seconds time elapsed                    ( +-  0.31% )

4. Lockdep enabled + cross-release enabled + this patch applied:

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

       2.963669551 seconds time elapsed                    ( +-  0.11% )

I.e. lockdep cross-release performance is now indistinguishable from
vanilla lockdep.

Bisected-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Analyzed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Suggested-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reported-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: amir73il@gmail.com
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
Cc: darrick.wong@oracle.com
Cc: david@fromorbit.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Cc: idryomov@gmail.com
Cc: johannes.berg@intel.com
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508921765-15396-5-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2017-10-25 12:19:01 +02:00
Documentation locking/lockdep: Add a boot parameter allowing unwind in cross-release and disable it by default 2017-10-25 12:19:01 +02:00
arch locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() 2017-10-25 11:01:08 +02:00
block block: Use DECLARE_COMPLETION_ONSTACK() in submit_bio_wait() 2017-10-25 12:18:59 +02:00
certs modsign: add markers to endif-statements in certs/Makefile 2017-07-14 11:01:37 +10:00
crypto Merge commit 'tags/keys-fixes-20171018' into fixes-v4.14-rc5 2017-10-19 12:28:38 +11:00
drivers locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() 2017-10-25 11:01:08 +02:00
firmware firmware: Restore support for built-in firmware 2017-09-16 10:58:48 -07:00
fs locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() 2017-10-25 11:01:08 +02:00
include locking/lockdep, sched/completions: Change the prefix of lock name for completion variables 2017-10-25 12:19:00 +02:00
init Merge branch 'work.mount' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/viro/vfs 2017-09-14 18:54:01 -07:00
ipc fix a typo in put_compat_shm_info() 2017-09-25 20:41:46 -04:00
kernel locking/lockdep: Add a boot parameter allowing unwind in cross-release and disable it by default 2017-10-25 12:19:01 +02:00
lib locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() 2017-10-25 11:01:08 +02:00
mm locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() 2017-10-25 11:01:08 +02:00
net locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() 2017-10-25 11:01:08 +02:00
samples locking/atomics, samples/mic/mpssd/mpssd.c: Convert ACCESS_ONCE() to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() 2017-10-25 11:01:01 +02:00
scripts linux/compiler.h: Split into compiler.h and compiler_types.h 2017-10-24 13:17:32 +02:00
security Linux 4.14-rc6 2017-10-24 13:17:20 +02:00
sound locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() 2017-10-25 11:01:08 +02:00
tools locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() 2017-10-25 11:01:08 +02:00
usr ramfs: clarify help text that compression applies to ramfs as well as legacy ramdisk. 2017-07-06 16:24:30 -07:00
virt locking/atomics: COCCINELLE/treewide: Convert trivial ACCESS_ONCE() patterns to READ_ONCE()/WRITE_ONCE() 2017-10-25 11:01:08 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
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.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore kbuild: Add support to generate LLVM assembly files 2017-04-25 08:13:52 +09:00
.mailmap Update James Hogan's email address 2017-10-04 17:11:53 -07:00
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CREDITS selinux/stable-4.14 PR 20170831 2017-09-12 13:21:00 -07:00
Kbuild kbuild: Consolidate header generation from ASM offset information 2017-04-13 05:43:37 +09:00
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MAINTAINERS USB/PHY fixes for 4.14-rc6 2017-10-23 06:33:05 -04:00
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