linux/lib
Peter Zijlstra f20786ff4d lockstat: core infrastructure
Introduce the core lock statistics code.

Lock statistics provides lock wait-time and hold-time (as well as the count
of corresponding contention and acquisitions events). Also, the first few
call-sites that encounter contention are tracked.

Lock wait-time is the time spent waiting on the lock. This provides insight
into the locking scheme, that is, a heavily contended lock is indicative of
a too coarse locking scheme.

Lock hold-time is the duration the lock was held, this provides a reference for
the wait-time numbers, so they can be put into perspective.

  1)
    lock
  2)
    ... do stuff ..
    unlock
  3)

The time between 1 and 2 is the wait-time. The time between 2 and 3 is the
hold-time.

The lockdep held-lock tracking code is reused, because it already collects locks
into meaningful groups (classes), and because it is an existing infrastructure
for lock instrumentation.

Currently lockdep tracks lock acquisition with two hooks:

  lock()
    lock_acquire()
    _lock()

 ... code protected by lock ...

  unlock()
    lock_release()
    _unlock()

We need to extend this with two more hooks, in order to measure contention.

  lock_contended() - used to measure contention events
  lock_acquired()  - completion of the contention

These are then placed the following way:

  lock()
    lock_acquire()
    if (!_try_lock())
      lock_contended()
      _lock()
      lock_acquired()

 ... do locked stuff ...

  unlock()
    lock_release()
    _unlock()

(Note: the try_lock() 'trick' is used to avoid instrumenting all platform
       dependent lock primitive implementations.)

It is also possible to toggle the two lockdep features at runtime using:

  /proc/sys/kernel/prove_locking
  /proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat

(esp. turning off the O(n^2) prove_locking functionaliy can help)

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: nuke unneeded ifdefs]
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19 10:04:49 -07:00
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lzo Add LZO1X algorithm to the kernel 2007-07-10 17:51:13 -07:00
reed_solomon [RSLIB] Support non-canonical GF representations 2007-05-02 11:56:33 +01:00
zlib_deflate
zlib_inflate Fix ppp_deflate issues with recent zlib_inflate changes 2007-05-07 12:13:04 -07:00
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argv_split.c add argv_split() 2007-07-18 08:47:40 -07:00
audit.c [PATCH] audit signal recipients 2007-05-11 05:38:25 -04:00
bitmap.c
bitrev.c
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check_signature.c uninline check_signature() 2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
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crc7.c CRC7 support 2007-07-17 10:23:04 -07:00
crc16.c
crc32.c
crc32defs.h
crc-ccitt.c
crc-itu-t.c CRC ITU-T V.41 2007-05-10 18:24:13 +02:00
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debug_locks.c
dec_and_lock.c
devres.c iomap: implement pcim_iounmap_regions() 2007-04-28 14:15:58 -04:00
div64.c
dump_stack.c
extable.c
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find_next_bit.c
gen_crc32table.c
genalloc.c Slab allocators: Replace explicit zeroing with __GFP_ZERO 2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
halfmd4.c
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hweight.c
idr.c lib: add idr_remove_all 2007-07-16 09:05:34 -07:00
inflate.c [PATCH] x86-64: deflate inflate_dynamic too 2007-05-02 19:27:15 +02:00
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ioremap.c Detach sched.h from mm.h 2007-05-21 09:18:19 -07:00
irq_regs.c
Kconfig CRC7 support 2007-07-17 10:23:04 -07:00
Kconfig.debug lockstat: core infrastructure 2007-07-19 10:04:49 -07:00
kernel_lock.c
klist.c
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kobject.c sysfs: make kobj point to sysfs_dirent instead of dentry 2007-07-11 16:09:08 -07:00
kref.c kref: fix CPU ordering with respect to krefs 2007-04-27 10:57:29 -07:00
libcrc32c.c
list_debug.c
locking-selftest-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-mutex.h
locking-selftest-rlock-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-rlock-softirq.h
locking-selftest-rlock.h
locking-selftest-rsem.h
locking-selftest-softirq.h
locking-selftest-spin-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-spin-softirq.h
locking-selftest-spin.h
locking-selftest-wlock-hardirq.h
locking-selftest-wlock-softirq.h
locking-selftest-wlock.h
locking-selftest-wsem.h
locking-selftest.c
Makefile add argv_split() 2007-07-18 08:47:40 -07:00
parser.c [AFS]: Make the match_*() functions take const options. 2007-05-03 03:10:39 -07:00
percpu_counter.c percpu_counters: use for_each_online_cpu() 2007-07-16 09:05:41 -07:00
plist.c
prio_tree.c
radix-tree.c [LIB]: export radix_tree_preload() 2007-07-14 16:05:04 +10:00
random32.c
rbtree.c
reciprocal_div.c
rwsem-spinlock.c
rwsem.c
semaphore-sleepers.c
sha1.c
smp_processor_id.c
sort.c
spinlock_debug.c
string.c
swiotlb.c fix section mismatch warning in lib/swiotlb.c 2007-05-08 11:14:59 -07:00
textsearch.c
ts_bm.c
ts_fsm.c
ts_kmp.c
vsprintf.c vsprintf.c: optimizing, part 2: base 10 conversion speedup, v2 2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00