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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@acm.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 6/7] locking/lockdep: Reuse freed chain_hlocks entries
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 16:42:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200204154236.GE14879@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200203164147.17990-7-longman@redhat.com>

On Mon, Feb 03, 2020 at 11:41:46AM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
> +	/*
> +	 * We require a minimum of 2 (u16) entries to encode a freelist
> +	 * 'pointer'.
> +	 */
> +	req = max(req, 2);


Would something simple like the below not avoid that whole 1 entry
'chain' nonsense?

It boots and passes the selftests, so it must be perfect :-)

--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep.c
@@ -3163,7 +3163,7 @@ static int validate_chain(struct task_st
 	 * (If lookup_chain_cache_add() return with 1 it acquires
 	 * graph_lock for us)
 	 */
-	if (!hlock->trylock && hlock->check &&
+	if (!chain_head && !hlock->trylock && hlock->check &&
 	    lookup_chain_cache_add(curr, hlock, chain_key)) {
 		/*
 		 * Check whether last held lock:

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-02-04 15:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-02-03 16:41 [PATCH v5 0/7] locking/lockdep: Reuse zapped " Waiman Long
2020-02-03 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 1/7] locking/lockdep: Decrement irq context counters when removing lock chain Waiman Long
2020-02-03 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 2/7] locking/lockdep: Display irq_context names in /proc/lockdep_chains Waiman Long
2020-02-03 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 3/7] locking/lockdep: Track number of zapped classes Waiman Long
2020-02-03 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 4/7] locking/lockdep: Throw away all lock chains with zapped class Waiman Long
2020-02-03 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 5/7] locking/lockdep: Track number of zapped lock chains Waiman Long
2020-02-03 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 6/7] locking/lockdep: Reuse freed chain_hlocks entries Waiman Long
2020-02-04 12:36   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-04 14:54     ` Waiman Long
2020-02-04 16:45     ` Waiman Long
2020-02-05  9:41       ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-05 13:59         ` Waiman Long
2020-02-04 15:42   ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2020-02-04 16:12     ` Waiman Long
2020-02-04 16:26       ` Waiman Long
2020-02-04 16:57         ` Waiman Long
2020-02-05  9:48           ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-05 14:03             ` Waiman Long
2020-02-03 16:41 ` [PATCH v5 7/7] locking/lockdep: Add a fast path for chain_hlocks allocation Waiman Long
2020-02-04 12:47   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-04 15:07     ` Waiman Long
2020-02-04 13:18   ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-04 13:44     ` Peter Zijlstra
2020-02-04 18:02       ` Waiman Long

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