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* locking: Implement an algorithm choice for Wound-Wait mutexesThomas Hellstrom2018-07-031-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The current Wound-Wait mutex algorithm is actually not Wound-Wait but Wait-Die. Implement also Wound-Wait as a per-ww-class choice. Wound-Wait is, contrary to Wait-Die a preemptive algorithm and is known to generate fewer backoffs. Testing reveals that this is true if the number of simultaneous contending transactions is small. As the number of simultaneous contending threads increases, Wait-Wound becomes inferior to Wait-Die in terms of elapsed time. Possibly due to the larger number of held locks of sleeping transactions. Update documentation and callers. Timings using git://people.freedesktop.org/~thomash/ww_mutex_test tag patch-18-06-15 Each thread runs 100000 batches of lock / unlock 800 ww mutexes randomly chosen out of 100000. Four core Intel x86_64: Algorithm #threads Rollbacks time Wound-Wait 4 ~100 ~17s. Wait-Die 4 ~150000 ~19s. Wound-Wait 16 ~360000 ~109s. Wait-Die 16 ~450000 ~82s. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Gustavo Padovan <gustavo@padovan.org> Cc: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@linux.intel.com> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> Cc: David Airlie <airlied@linux.ie> Cc: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-media@vger.kernel.org Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org Co-authored-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Thomas Hellstrom <thellstrom@vmware.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* License cleanup: add SPDX GPL-2.0 license identifier to files with no licenseGreg Kroah-Hartman2017-11-021-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Many source files in the tree are missing licensing information, which makes it harder for compliance tools to determine the correct license. By default all files without license information are under the default license of the kernel, which is GPL version 2. Update the files which contain no license information with the 'GPL-2.0' SPDX license identifier. The SPDX identifier is a legally binding shorthand, which can be used instead of the full boiler plate text. This patch is based on work done by Thomas Gleixner and Kate Stewart and Philippe Ombredanne. How this work was done: Patches were generated and checked against linux-4.14-rc6 for a subset of the use cases: - file had no licensing information it it. - file was a */uapi/* one with no licensing information in it, - file was a */uapi/* one with existing licensing information, Further patches will be generated in subsequent months to fix up cases where non-standard license headers were used, and references to license had to be inferred by heuristics based on keywords. The analysis to determine which SPDX License Identifier to be applied to a file was done in a spreadsheet of side by side results from of the output of two independent scanners (ScanCode & Windriver) producing SPDX tag:value files created by Philippe Ombredanne. Philippe prepared the base worksheet, and did an initial spot review of a few 1000 files. The 4.13 kernel was the starting point of the analysis with 60,537 files assessed. Kate Stewart did a file by file comparison of the scanner results in the spreadsheet to determine which SPDX license identifier(s) to be applied to the file. She confirmed any determination that was not immediately clear with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Criteria used to select files for SPDX license identifier tagging was: - Files considered eligible had to be source code files. - Make and config files were included as candidates if they contained >5 lines of source - File already had some variant of a license header in it (even if <5 lines). All documentation files were explicitly excluded. The following heuristics were used to determine which SPDX license identifiers to apply. - when both scanners couldn't find any license traces, file was considered to have no license information in it, and the top level COPYING file license applied. For non */uapi/* files that summary was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 11139 and resulted in the first patch in this series. If that file was a */uapi/* path one, it was "GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note" otherwise it was "GPL-2.0". Results of that was: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------- GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 930 and resulted in the second patch in this series. - if a file had some form of licensing information in it, and was one of the */uapi/* ones, it was denoted with the Linux-syscall-note if any GPL family license was found in the file or had no licensing in it (per prior point). Results summary: SPDX license identifier # files ---------------------------------------------------|------ GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note 270 GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 169 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-2-Clause) 21 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 17 LGPL-2.1+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 15 GPL-1.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 14 ((GPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR BSD-3-Clause) 5 LGPL-2.0+ WITH Linux-syscall-note 4 LGPL-2.1 WITH Linux-syscall-note 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) OR MIT) 3 ((GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note) AND MIT) 1 and that resulted in the third patch in this series. - when the two scanners agreed on the detected license(s), that became the concluded license(s). - when there was disagreement between the two scanners (one detected a license but the other didn't, or they both detected different licenses) a manual inspection of the file occurred. - In most cases a manual inspection of the information in the file resulted in a clear resolution of the license that should apply (and which scanner probably needed to revisit its heuristics). - When it was not immediately clear, the license identifier was confirmed with lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. - If there was any question as to the appropriate license identifier, the file was flagged for further research and to be revisited later in time. In total, over 70 hours of logged manual review was done on the spreadsheet to determine the SPDX license identifiers to apply to the source files by Kate, Philippe, Thomas and, in some cases, confirmation by lawyers working with the Linux Foundation. Kate also obtained a third independent scan of the 4.13 code base from FOSSology, and compared selected files where the other two scanners disagreed against that SPDX file, to see if there was new insights. The Windriver scanner is based on an older version of FOSSology in part, so they are related. Thomas did random spot checks in about 500 files from the spreadsheets for the uapi headers and agreed with SPDX license identifier in the files he inspected. For the non-uapi files Thomas did random spot checks in about 15000 files. In initial set of patches against 4.14-rc6, 3 files were found to have copy/paste license identifier errors, and have been fixed to reflect the correct identifier. Additionally Philippe spent 10 hours this week doing a detailed manual inspection and review of the 12,461 patched files from the initial patch version early this week with: - a full scancode scan run, collecting the matched texts, detected license ids and scores - reviewing anything where there was a license detected (about 500+ files) to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct - reviewing anything where there was no detection but the patch license was not GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note to ensure that the applied SPDX license was correct This produced a worksheet with 20 files needing minor correction. This worksheet was then exported into 3 different .csv files for the different types of files to be modified. These .csv files were then reviewed by Greg. Thomas wrote a script to parse the csv files and add the proper SPDX tag to the file, in the format that the file expected. This script was further refined by Greg based on the output to detect more types of files automatically and to distinguish between header and source .c files (which need different comment types.) Finally Greg ran the script using the .csv files to generate the patches. Reviewed-by: Kate Stewart <kstewart@linuxfoundation.org> Reviewed-by: Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
* locking/selftest: Avoid false BUG reportPeter Zijlstra2017-10-101-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The work-around for the expected failure is providing another failure :/ Only when CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING=y do we increment unexpected_testcase_failures, so only then do we need to decrement, otherwise we'll end up with a negative number and that will again trigger a BUG (printout, not crash). Reported-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Tested-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Fixes: d82fed752942 ("locking/lockdep/selftests: Fix mixed read-write ABBA tests") Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* locking/lockdep/selftests: Fix mixed read-write ABBA testsPeter Zijlstra2017-08-291-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit: e91498589746 ("locking/lockdep/selftests: Add mixed read-write ABBA tests") adds an explicit FAILURE to the locking selftest but overlooked the fact that this kills lockdep. Fudge the test to avoid this. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: hpa@zytor.com Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170828124245.xlo2yshxq2btgmuf@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* locking/lockdep/selftests: Add mixed read-write ABBA testsPeter Zijlstra2017-08-251-2/+115
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Currently lockdep has limited support for recursive readers, add a few mixed read-write ABBA selftests to show the extend of these limitations. [ 0.000000] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ 0.000000] | spin |wlock |rlock |mutex | wsem | rsem | [ 0.000000] -------------------------------------------------------------------------- [ 0.000000] mixed read-lock/lock-write ABBA: |FAILED| | ok | [ 0.000000] mixed read-lock/lock-read ABBA: | ok | | ok | [ 0.000000] mixed write-lock/lock-write ABBA: | ok | | ok | This clearly illustrates the case where lockdep fails to find a deadlock. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com Cc: byungchul.park@lge.com Cc: david@fromorbit.com Cc: johannes@sipsolutions.net Cc: oleg@redhat.com Cc: tj@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* locking/selftest: Add RT-mutex supportPeter Zijlstra2017-06-081-0/+106
| | | | | | | | | | | Now that RT-mutex has lockdep annotations, add them to the selftest. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* locking/selftest: Remove the bad unlock ordering testPeter Zijlstra2017-06-081-29/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | There is no such thing as a bad unlock order. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* locking/selftest: Fix output since KERN_CONT changesMichael Ellerman2016-11-251-33/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since the KERN_CONT changes the locking-selftest output is messed up, eg: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | spin |wlock |rlock |mutex | wsem | rsem | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | Use pr_cont() to get it looking normal again: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- | spin |wlock |rlock |mutex | wsem | rsem | -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | Reported-by: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1480027528-934-1-git-send-email-mpe@ellerman.id.au Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* sched: Introduce preempt_count accessor functionsPeter Zijlstra2013-09-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace the single preempt_count() 'function' that's an lvalue with two proper functions: preempt_count() - returns the preempt_count value as rvalue preempt_count_set() - Allows setting the preempt-count value Also provide preempt_count_ptr() as a convenience wrapper to implement all modifying operations. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-orxrbycjozopqfhb4dxdkdvb@git.kernel.org [ Fixed build failure. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* mutex: Move ww_mutex definitions to ww_mutex.hMaarten Lankhorst2013-07-121-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move the definitions for wound/wait mutexes out to a separate header, ww_mutex.h. This reduces clutter in mutex.h, and increases readability. Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Acked-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com> Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/51D675DC.3000907@canonical.com [ Tidied up the code a bit. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* locking-selftests: Handle unexpected failures more strictlyMaarten Lankhorst2013-06-261-3/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING is not enabled, more tests are expected to pass unexpectedly, but there no tests that should start to fail that pass with CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING enabled. Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: daniel@ffwll.ch Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130620113151.4001.77963.stgit@patser Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* mutex: Add more w/w tests to test EDEADLK path handlingMaarten Lankhorst2013-06-261-3/+261
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: daniel@ffwll.ch Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130620113141.4001.54331.stgit@patser Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* mutex: Add more tests to lib/locking-selftest.cMaarten Lankhorst2013-06-261-0/+62
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | None of the ww_mutex codepaths should be taken in the 'normal' mutex calls. The easiest way to verify this is by using the normal mutex calls, and making sure o.ctx is unmodified. Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org Cc: robclark@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: daniel@ffwll.ch Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130620113130.4001.45423.stgit@patser Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* mutex: Add w/w tests to lib/locking-selftest.cMaarten Lankhorst2013-06-261-19/+381
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This stresses the lockdep code in some ways specifically useful to ww_mutexes. It adds checks for most of the common locking errors. Signed-off-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: dri-devel@lists.freedesktop.org Cc: linaro-mm-sig@lists.linaro.org Cc: robclark@gmail.com Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org Cc: daniel@ffwll.ch Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130620113124.4001.23186.stgit@patser Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
* lockdep: Selftest: convert spinlock to raw spinlockYong Zhang2013-02-191-17/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | To make the lockdep selftest working on RT we need to convert the spinlock tests to a raw spinlock. Otherwise we cannot run the irq context checks. For mainline this is just annotational as spinlocks are mapped to raw_spinlocks anyway. Signed-off-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1334559716-18447-2-git-send-email-yong.zhang0@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* lib: reduce the use of module.h wherever possiblePaul Gortmaker2012-03-071-1/+0
| | | | | | | | | | For files only using THIS_MODULE and/or EXPORT_SYMBOL, map them onto including export.h -- or if the file isn't even using those, then just delete the include. Fix up any implicit include dependencies that were being masked by module.h along the way. Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
* rcu: Fix unpaired rcu_irq_enter() from locking selftestsFrederic Weisbecker2011-05-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | HARDIRQ_ENTER() maps to irq_enter() which calls rcu_irq_enter(). But HARDIRQ_EXIT() maps to __irq_exit() which doesn't call rcu_irq_exit(). So for every locking selftest that simulates hardirq disabled, we create an imbalance in the rcu extended quiescent state internal state. As a result, after the first missing rcu_irq_exit(), subsequent irqs won't exit dyntick-idle mode after leaving the interrupt handler. This means that RCU won't see the affected CPU as being in an extended quiescent state, resulting in long grace-period delays (as in grace periods extending for hours). To fix this, just use __irq_enter() to simulate the hardirq context. This is sufficient for the locking selftests as we don't need to exit any extended quiescent state or perform any check that irqs normally do when they wake up from idle. As a side effect, this patch makes it possible to restore "rcu: Decrease memory-barrier usage based on semi-formal proof", which eventually helped finding this bug. Reported-and-tested-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Stable <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
* locking: rename trace_softirq_[enter|exit] => lockdep_softirq_[enter|exit]Ingo Molnar2009-03-131-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup The naming clashes with upcoming softirq tracepoints, so rename the APIs to lockdep_*(). Requested-by: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* [PATCH] lockdep: show more details about self-test failuresIngo Molnar2006-12-071-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | Make the locking self-test failures (of 'FAILURE' type) easier to debug by printing more information. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep: allow read_lock() recursion of same classIngo Molnar2006-07-031-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> lockdep so far only allowed read-recursion for the same lock instance. This is enough in the overwhelming majority of cases, but a hostap case triggered and reported by Miles Lane relies on same-class different-instance recursion. So we relax the restriction on read-lock recursion. (This change does not allow rwsem read-recursion, which is still forbidden.) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep: coreIngo Molnar2006-07-031-3/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Do 'make oldconfig' and accept all the defaults for new config options - reboot into the kernel and if everything goes well it should boot up fine and you should have /proc/lockdep and /proc/lockdep_stats files. Typically if the lock validator finds some problem it will print out voluminous debug output that begins with "BUG: ..." and which syslog output can be used by kernel developers to figure out the precise locking scenario. What does the lock validator do? It "observes" and maps all locking rules as they occur dynamically (as triggered by the kernel's natural use of spinlocks, rwlocks, mutexes and rwsems). Whenever the lock validator subsystem detects a new locking scenario, it validates this new rule against the existing set of rules. If this new rule is consistent with the existing set of rules then the new rule is added transparently and the kernel continues as normal. If the new rule could create a deadlock scenario then this condition is printed out. When determining validity of locking, all possible "deadlock scenarios" are considered: assuming arbitrary number of CPUs, arbitrary irq context and task context constellations, running arbitrary combinations of all the existing locking scenarios. In a typical system this means millions of separate scenarios. This is why we call it a "locking correctness" validator - for all rules that are observed the lock validator proves it with mathematical certainty that a deadlock could not occur (assuming that the lock validator implementation itself is correct and its internal data structures are not corrupted by some other kernel subsystem). [see more details and conditionals of this statement in include/linux/lockdep.h and Documentation/lockdep-design.txt] Furthermore, this "all possible scenarios" property of the validator also enables the finding of complex, highly unlikely multi-CPU multi-context races via single single-context rules, increasing the likelyhood of finding bugs drastically. In practical terms: the lock validator already found a bug in the upstream kernel that could only occur on systems with 3 or more CPUs, and which needed 3 very unlikely code sequences to occur at once on the 3 CPUs. That bug was found and reported on a single-CPU system (!). So in essence a race will be found "piecemail-wise", triggering all the necessary components for the race, without having to reproduce the race scenario itself! In its short existence the lock validator found and reported many bugs before they actually caused a real deadlock. To further increase the efficiency of the validator, the mapping is not per "lock instance", but per "lock-class". For example, all struct inode objects in the kernel have inode->inotify_mutex. If there are 10,000 inodes cached, then there are 10,000 lock objects. But ->inotify_mutex is a single "lock type", and all locking activities that occur against ->inotify_mutex are "unified" into this single lock-class. The advantage of the lock-class approach is that all historical ->inotify_mutex uses are mapped into a single (and as narrow as possible) set of locking rules - regardless of how many different tasks or inode structures it took to build this set of rules. The set of rules persist during the lifetime of the kernel. To see the rough magnitude of checking that the lock validator does, here's a portion of /proc/lockdep_stats, fresh after bootup: lock-classes: 694 [max: 2048] direct dependencies: 1598 [max: 8192] indirect dependencies: 17896 all direct dependencies: 16206 dependency chains: 1910 [max: 8192] in-hardirq chains: 17 in-softirq chains: 105 in-process chains: 1065 stack-trace entries: 38761 [max: 131072] combined max dependencies: 2033928 hardirq-safe locks: 24 hardirq-unsafe locks: 176 softirq-safe locks: 53 softirq-unsafe locks: 137 irq-safe locks: 59 irq-unsafe locks: 176 The lock validator has observed 1598 actual single-thread locking patterns, and has validated all possible 2033928 distinct locking scenarios. More details about the design of the lock validator can be found in Documentation/lockdep-design.txt, which can also found at: http://redhat.com/~mingo/lockdep-patches/lockdep-design.txt [bunk@stusta.de: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] lockdep: locking API self testsIngo Molnar2006-07-031-0/+1218
Introduce DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS, which uses the generic lock debugging code's silent-failure feature to run a matrix of testcases. There are 210 testcases currently: +----------------------- | Locking API testsuite: +------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ | spin |wlock |rlock |mutex | wsem | rsem | -------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+------+ A-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-B-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-B-C-C-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-C-A-B-C deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-B-C-C-D-D-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-C-D-B-D-D-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | A-B-C-D-B-C-D-A deadlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | double unlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | bad unlock order: ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | ok | --------------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+ recursive read-lock: | ok | | ok | --------------------------------------+------+------+------+------+------+ non-nested unlock: ok | ok | ok | ok | --------------------------------------+------+------+------+ hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/12: ok | ok | ok | soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/12: ok | ok | ok | hard-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok | soft-irqs-on + irq-safe-A/21: ok | ok | ok | sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok | sirq-safe-A => hirqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + irqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + irqs-on/12: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + irqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + irqs-on/21: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/123: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/132: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/132: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/213: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/213: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/231: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/231: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/312: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/312: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/321: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #1/321: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/123: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/123: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/132: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/132: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/213: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/213: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/231: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/231: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/312: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/312: ok | ok | ok | hard-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/321: ok | ok | ok | soft-safe-A + unsafe-B #2/321: ok | ok | ok | hard-irq lock-inversion/123: ok | ok | ok | soft-irq lock-inversion/123: ok | ok | ok | hard-irq lock-inversion/132: ok | ok | ok | soft-irq lock-inversion/132: ok | ok | ok | hard-irq lock-inversion/213: ok | ok | ok | soft-irq lock-inversion/213: ok | ok | ok | hard-irq lock-inversion/231: ok | ok | ok | soft-irq lock-inversion/231: ok | ok | ok | hard-irq lock-inversion/312: ok | ok | ok | soft-irq lock-inversion/312: ok | ok | ok | hard-irq lock-inversion/321: ok | ok | ok | soft-irq lock-inversion/321: ok | ok | ok | hard-irq read-recursion/123: ok | soft-irq read-recursion/123: ok | hard-irq read-recursion/132: ok | soft-irq read-recursion/132: ok | hard-irq read-recursion/213: ok | soft-irq read-recursion/213: ok | hard-irq read-recursion/231: ok | soft-irq read-recursion/231: ok | hard-irq read-recursion/312: ok | soft-irq read-recursion/312: ok | hard-irq read-recursion/321: ok | soft-irq read-recursion/321: ok | --------------------------------+-----+---------------- Good, all 210 testcases passed! | --------------------------------+ Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>