Re: Lockdep usage

From: Yong Zhang
Date: Thu Apr 22 2010 - 03:07:18 EST


On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:26:07PM -0700, Darren Hart wrote:
> I'm having some trouble with lockstat. I've enabled
> CONFIG_LOCK_STATS and then run the following commands to collect the
> lock statistics for the futex_lock test case. I expect this test
> case to generate a fair amount of contention on the futex hash
> bucket locks, but they don't show up in the stats (in fact, nothing
> shows up in the stats). I have seen much longer lock_stat files when
> I forgot to clear them before the test, but no hb locks showed up
> there either.
>
> Is my usage below incorrect? Do I have to somehow annotate the
> hb->lock in order for lockstat to track it?

IMHO, you don't need to do that.

> lock.lockstat; echo 0 > /proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat
> futex_lock: Measure FUTEX_LOCK operations per second
> Arguments: iterations=10000000 threads=256 adaptive=no
> period=1000 duty-cycle=20%
> Result: 731 Kiter/s
>
> # cat lock.lockstat
> lock_stat version 0.3
> *WARNING* lock debugging disabled!! - possibly due to a lockdep warning

This means lockdep has detect there is something wrong.
Can you show your 'dmesg'?

Thanks,
Yong

> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> class name con-bounces
> contentions waittime-min waittime-max waittime-total
> acq-bounces acquisitions holdtime-min holdtime-max
> holdtime-total
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> #
>
> Thanks,
>
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> Darren Hart
> IBM Linux Technology Center
> Real-Time Linux Team
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