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fix raw_spinlock_t vs lockdep
authorPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 08:48:53 +0000 (01:48 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Thu, 19 Jul 2007 17:04:49 +0000 (10:04 -0700)
commit21f8ca3bf6198bd21e3c4cc820af2ccf753a6ec8
tree858f5cf78cb849ad135a6867428c2088e41d10e5
parent5b7f13bd26a0c1d394a1a1f2bb6de5130c3a3843
fix raw_spinlock_t vs lockdep

Use the lockdep infrastructure to track lock contention and other lock
statistics.

It tracks lock contention events, and the first four unique call-sites that
encountered contention.

It also measures lock wait-time and hold-time in nanoseconds. The minimum and
maximum times are tracked, as well as a total (which together with the number
of event can give the avg).

All statistics are done per lock class, per write (exclusive state) and per read
(shared state).

The statistics are collected per-cpu, so that the collection overhead is
minimized via having no global cachemisses.

This new lock statistics feature is independent of the lock dependency checking
traditionally done by lockdep; it just shares the lock tracking code. It is
also possible to enable both and runtime disabled either component - thereby
avoiding the O(n^2) lock chain walks for instance.

This patch:

raw_spinlock_t should not use lockdep (and doesn't) since lockdep itself
relies on it.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
include/linux/spinlock_types.h
include/linux/spinlock_types_up.h