linux-kernel - Re: possible circular locking dependency detected [was: linux-next: Tree for Aug 22]

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Date:   Wed, 30 Aug 2017 14:20:37 +0900
From:   Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>
To:     Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@....com>
Cc:     Bart Van Assche <Bart.VanAssche@....com>, peterz@...radead.org,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        "linux-block@...r.kernel.org" <linux-block@...r.kernel.org>,
        "sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com" 
        <sergey.senozhatsky.work@...il.com>,
        "martin.petersen@...cle.com" <martin.petersen@...cle.com>,
        "axboe@...nel.dk" <axboe@...nel.dk>,
        "linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org" <linux-scsi@...r.kernel.org>,
        "sfr@...b.auug.org.au" <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
        "linux-next@...r.kernel.org" <linux-next@...r.kernel.org>,
        kernel-team@....com
Subject: Re: possible circular locking dependency detected [was: linux-next:
 Tree for Aug 22]

On (08/23/17 09:03), Byungchul Park wrote:
[..]
> > Byungchul, did you add the crosslock checks to lockdep? Can you have a look at
> > the above report? That report namely doesn't make sense to me.
> 
> The report is talking about the following lockup:
> 
> A work in a worker                     A task work on exit to user
> ------------------                     ---------------------------
> mutex_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex)
>                                        mutext_lock(&bdev->bd_mutex)
> blk_execute_rq()
>    wait_for_completion_io_timeout(&A)
>                                        complete(&A)
> 
[..]
> To Peterz,
> 
> Anyway I wanted to avoid lockdep reports in the case using a timeout
> interface. Do you think it's still worth reporting the kind of lockup?
> I'm ok if you do.

Byungchul, a quick question.
have you measured the performance impact? somehow my linux-next is
notably slower than earlier 4.13 linux-next. (e.g. scrolling in vim
is irritatingly slow)


`time dmesg' shows some difference, but probably that's not a good
test.

	!LOCKDEP	LOCKDEP		LOCKDEP -CROSSRELEASE -COMPLETIONS
	real 0m0.661s	0m2.290s	0m1.920s
	user 0m0.010s	0m0.105s	0m0.000s
	sys  0m0.636s	0m2.224s	0m1.888s

anyone else "sees"/"can confirm" the slow down?


it gets back to "usual normal" when I disable CROSSRELEASE and COMPLETIONS.

---

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index b19c491cbc4e..cdc30ef81c5e 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1091,8 +1091,6 @@ config PROVE_LOCKING
        select DEBUG_MUTEXES
        select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
        select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
-       select LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
-       select LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
        select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
        default n
        help

---

	-ss