linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 0/3] locking/spinlock_debug: Change it to a mostly fair lock

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Date:   Wed,  1 Feb 2017 16:13:37 -0500
From:   Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Waiman Long <longman@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v2 0/3] locking/spinlock_debug: Change it to a mostly fair lock

 v1->v2:
  - Pack lockup and break_lock into a single 4-byte slot so as not
    to in increase spinlock size when GENERIC_LOCKBREAK is
    on. Hopefully that will be enough to fix a frame size too large
    warning in 0-day build.
  - Add a new patch to disable GENERIC_LOCKBREAK when DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
    is on.

The current debug spinlock implementation is a TATAS unfair lock. This
can occasionally lead to system lockup with a debug kernel because
of the unfairness of the lock rather than inherent locking problem.

This patch set changes the debug spinlock implementation to a
mostly fair spinlock based on the MCS lock similar to what is done
in qspinlock.

Waiman Long (3):
  locking/spinlock_debug: Reduce lockup suspected message clutter
  locking/spinlock_debug: Reduce lock cacheline contention
  locking/spinlock: Disable GENERIC_LOCKBREAK when DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC is
    on

 arch/m32r/Kconfig               |  2 +-
 arch/parisc/Kconfig             |  2 +-
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig            |  2 +-
 arch/s390/Kconfig               |  2 +-
 arch/sh/Kconfig                 |  2 +-
 arch/sparc/Kconfig              |  2 +-
 include/linux/spinlock_types.h  |  9 +++--
 kernel/locking/spinlock_debug.c | 73 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----------
 8 files changed, 65 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-)

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