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    locking/lockdep: Fix debug_locks off performance problem · 81301a15
    Waiman Long authored
    
    
    [ 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: default avatarWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1539913518-15598-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarSasha Levin <sashal@kernel.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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