Re: [PATCH 1/3] Increase lockdep limits: MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES

From: Dave Jones
Date: Wed Jul 08 2009 - 13:23:14 EST


On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 05:55:01PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Tue, 2009-07-07 at 16:50 +0100, Joao Correia wrote:
>
> > >> Yes. Anything 2.6.31 forward triggers this immediatly during init
> > >> process, at random places.
> > >
> > > Not on my machines it doesn't.. so I suspect its something weird in
> > > your .config or maybe due to some hardware you have that I don't that
> > > triggers different drivers or somesuch.
> >
> > I am not the only one reporting this, and it happens, for example,
> > with a stock .config from a Fedora 11 install.
> >
> > It may, of course, be a funny driver interaction yes, but other than
> > stripping the box piece by piece, how would one go about debugging
> > this otherwise?
>
> One thing to do is stare (or share) at the output
> of /proc/lockdep_chains and see if there's some particularly large
> chains in there, or many of the same name or something.

I don't see any long chains, just lots of them.
29065 lines on my box that's hitting MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES

> /proc/lockdep_stats might also be interesting, mine reads like:

lock-classes: 1518 [max: 8191]
direct dependencies: 7142 [max: 16384]
indirect dependencies: 97905
all direct dependencies: 753706
dependency chains: 6201 [max: 32768]
dependency chain hlocks: 16665 [max: 163840]
in-hardirq chains: 1380
in-softirq chains: 589
in-process chains: 4232
stack-trace entries: 262144 [max: 262144]
combined max dependencies: 3449006070
hardirq-safe locks: 1008
hardirq-unsafe locks: 364
softirq-safe locks: 838
softirq-unsafe locks: 322
irq-safe locks: 1043
irq-unsafe locks: 364
hardirq-read-safe locks: 0
hardirq-read-unsafe locks: 48
softirq-read-safe locks: 0
softirq-read-unsafe locks: 48
irq-read-safe locks: 0
irq-read-unsafe locks: 48
uncategorized locks: 104
unused locks: 0
max locking depth: 9
max recursion depth: 10
debug_locks: 0


Dave

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