Re: [PATCH v4 0/4] locking/lockdep: Disable KASAN instrumentation of lockdep.c

[Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2025 at 03:02:24PM -0500, Waiman Long wrote:
>  v3: 
>   - Add another patch to insert lock events into lockdep.c.
>   - Rerun all the tests with the simpler defconfig kernel build and do
>     further analysis of the of the performance difference between the
>     the RT and non-RT debug kernels.
> 
>  v4:
>   - Update test results in patch 3 after incorporating CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE
>     into the test matrix.
>   - Add patch 4 to call kasan_check_byte() in lock_acquire.
> 
> It is found that disabling KASAN instrumentation when compiling
> lockdep.c can significantly improve the performance of RT debug kernel
> while the performance benefit of non-RT debug kernel is relatively
> modest.
> 
> This series also include patches to add locking events to the rtmutex
> slow paths and the lockdep code for better analysis of the different
> performance behavior between RT and non-RT debug kernels.
> 

Thank you, and thank Marco and Andrey for the reviews. Queued for v6.15.

Regards,
Boqun

> Waiman Long (4):
>   locking/lock_events: Add locking events for rtmutex slow paths
>   locking/lock_events: Add locking events for lockdep
>   locking/lockdep: Disable KASAN instrumentation of lockdep.c
>   locking/lockdep: Add kasan_check_byte() check in lock_acquire()
> 
>  kernel/locking/Makefile           |  3 ++-
>  kernel/locking/lock_events_list.h | 29 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  kernel/locking/lockdep.c          | 22 +++++++++++++++++++++-
>  kernel/locking/rtmutex.c          | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  4 files changed, 76 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> 
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