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Documentation: Add statistics about nested locks

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Explain what the trailing "/1" on some lock class names of
lock_stat output means.

Reviewed-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang0@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4DD4F6C1.5090701@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Juri Lelli 2011-05-19 12:53:53 +02:00 committed by Ingo Molnar
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@ -12,8 +12,9 @@ Because things like lock contention can severely impact performance.
- HOW
Lockdep already has hooks in the lock functions and maps lock instances to
lock classes. We build on that. The graph below shows the relation between
the lock functions and the various hooks therein.
lock classes. We build on that (see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt).
The graph below shows the relation between the lock functions and the various
hooks therein.
__acquire
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@ -128,6 +129,37 @@ points are the points we're contending with.
The integer part of the time values is in us.
Dealing with nested locks, subclasses may appear:
32...............................................................................................................................................................................................
33
34 &rq->lock: 13128 13128 0.43 190.53 103881.26 97454 3453404 0.00 401.11 13224683.11
35 ---------
36 &rq->lock 645 [<ffffffff8103bfc4>] task_rq_lock+0x43/0x75
37 &rq->lock 297 [<ffffffff8104ba65>] try_to_wake_up+0x127/0x25a
38 &rq->lock 360 [<ffffffff8103c4c5>] select_task_rq_fair+0x1f0/0x74a
39 &rq->lock 428 [<ffffffff81045f98>] scheduler_tick+0x46/0x1fb
40 ---------
41 &rq->lock 77 [<ffffffff8103bfc4>] task_rq_lock+0x43/0x75
42 &rq->lock 174 [<ffffffff8104ba65>] try_to_wake_up+0x127/0x25a
43 &rq->lock 4715 [<ffffffff8103ed4b>] double_rq_lock+0x42/0x54
44 &rq->lock 893 [<ffffffff81340524>] schedule+0x157/0x7b8
45
46...............................................................................................................................................................................................
47
48 &rq->lock/1: 11526 11488 0.33 388.73 136294.31 21461 38404 0.00 37.93 109388.53
49 -----------
50 &rq->lock/1 11526 [<ffffffff8103ed58>] double_rq_lock+0x4f/0x54
51 -----------
52 &rq->lock/1 5645 [<ffffffff8103ed4b>] double_rq_lock+0x42/0x54
53 &rq->lock/1 1224 [<ffffffff81340524>] schedule+0x157/0x7b8
54 &rq->lock/1 4336 [<ffffffff8103ed58>] double_rq_lock+0x4f/0x54
55 &rq->lock/1 181 [<ffffffff8104ba65>] try_to_wake_up+0x127/0x25a
Line 48 shows statistics for the second subclass (/1) of &rq->lock class
(subclass starts from 0), since in this case, as line 50 suggests,
double_rq_lock actually acquires a nested lock of two spinlocks.
View the top contending locks:
# grep : /proc/lock_stat | head