locking/lockdep: Disable cross-release features for now
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 14 Oct 2017 07:26:59 +0000 (09:26 +0200)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 14 Oct 2017 10:50:26 +0000 (12:50 +0200)
Johan Hovold reported a big lockdep slowdown on his system, caused by lockdep:

> I had noticed that the BeagleBone Black boot time appeared to have
> increased significantly with 4.14 and yesterday I finally had time to
> investigate it.
>
> Boot time (from "Linux version" to login prompt) had in fact doubled
> since 4.13 where it took 17 seconds (with my current config) compared to
> the 35 seconds I now see with 4.14-rc4.
>
> I quick bisect pointed to lockdep and specifically the following commit:
>
> 28a903f63ec0 ("locking/lockdep: Handle non(or multi)-acquisition of a crosslock")

Because the final v4.14 release is close, disable the cross-release lockdep
features for now.

Bisected-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Debugged-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Reported-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171014072659.f2yr6mhm5ha3eou7@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
lib/Kconfig.debug

index 2689b7c50c52992623cc8d7e65df03bffc8798d3..e2705843c524d9c6d456c8c17735f870855acb9a 100644 (file)
@@ -1092,8 +1092,8 @@ config PROVE_LOCKING
        select DEBUG_MUTEXES
        select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
        select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
-       select LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
-       select LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
+       select LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE if BROKEN
+       select LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS if BROKEN
        select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
        default n
        help