locking/qspinlock_stat: Count instances of nested lock slowpaths
authorWaiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:45:06 +0000 (09:45 -0400)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Wed, 17 Oct 2018 06:37:31 +0000 (08:37 +0200)
commit1222109a53637f96c581224198b86856d503f892
treee144300a8e2e0d4121f02571097e43d49e45bf4a
parent7aa54be2976550f17c11a1c3e3630002dea39303
locking/qspinlock_stat: Count instances of nested lock slowpaths

Queued spinlock supports up to 4 levels of lock slowpath nesting -
user context, soft IRQ, hard IRQ and NMI. However, we are not sure how
often the nesting happens.

So add 3 more per-CPU stat counters to track the number of instances where
nesting index goes to 1, 2 and 3 respectively.

On a dual-socket 64-core 128-thread Zen server, the following were the
new stat counter values under different circumstances:

         State                         slowpath   index1   index2   index3
         -----                         --------   ------   ------   -------
  After bootup                         1,012,150    82       0        0
  After parallel build + perf-top    125,195,009    82       0        0

So the chance of having more than 2 levels of nesting is extremely low.

[ mingo: Minor changelog edits. ]

Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1539697507-28084-1-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
kernel/locking/qspinlock.c
kernel/locking/qspinlock_stat.h