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

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Wed Jul 08 2009 - 15:56:46 EST


On Wed, 2009-07-08 at 20:48 +0100, Joao Correia wrote:
>
>
> Im in no way pretending to understand all the details on this system,
> but i do know there has been, as of late, an effort to make the init
> process do more things at once, ie, load more modules in parallel to
> speed up the process. Can't that be at least partially responsible for
> this? Even if its just making some other problem more obvious?

Nah, lockdep serializes all that under a single lock ;-)

module unloading in particular wastes resources from a lockdep pov, so
as long as that doesn't happen, we're good.

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