From 81301a15a267ba132c07e01c70d5fbe91069bdfb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Waiman Long Date: Thu, 18 Oct 2018 21:45:17 -0400 Subject: locking/lockdep: Fix debug_locks off performance problem [ Upstream commit 9506a7425b094d2f1d9c877ed5a78f416669269b ] It was found that when debug_locks was turned off because of a problem found by the lockdep code, the system performance could drop quite significantly when the lock_stat code was also configured into the kernel. For instance, parallel kernel build time on a 4-socket x86-64 server nearly doubled. Further analysis into the cause of the slowdown traced back to the frequent call to debug_locks_off() from the __lock_acquired() function probably due to some inconsistent lockdep states with debug_locks off. The debug_locks_off() function did an unconditional atomic xchg to write a 0 value into debug_locks which had already been set to 0. This led to severe cacheline contention in the cacheline that held debug_locks. As debug_locks is being referenced in quite a few different places in the kernel, this greatly slow down the system performance. To prevent that trashing of debug_locks cacheline, lock_acquired() and lock_contended() now checks the state of debug_locks before proceeding. The debug_locks_off() function is also modified to check debug_locks before calling __debug_locks_off(). Signed-off-by: Waiman Long Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Paul E. McKenney Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: Will Deacon Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1539913518-15598-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- lib/debug_locks.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'lib') diff --git a/lib/debug_locks.c b/lib/debug_locks.c index 96c4c633d95e..124fdf238b3d 100644 --- a/lib/debug_locks.c +++ b/lib/debug_locks.c @@ -37,7 +37,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(debug_locks_silent); */ int debug_locks_off(void) { - if (__debug_locks_off()) { + if (debug_locks && __debug_locks_off()) { if (!debug_locks_silent) { console_verbose(); return 1; -- cgit v1.2.3