[RFC tip/locking/lockdep v3 00/14] lockdep: Support deadlock detection for recursive read locks

From: Boqun Feng
Date: Mon Sep 25 2017 - 18:18:15 EST


Hi Ingo and Peter,

This is V3 for recursive read lock support in lockdep.

Changes since V2:

* Add one revert patch for commit d82fed752942
("locking/lockdep/selftests: Fix mixed read-write ABBA tests"),
since we could handle recursive read lock correctly, so we don't
need to fudge the test anymore.

* More document and print-message changes for redefining
LOCK*_STATE*.

* Rewrite some commit logs to improve the explanation of the idea.

V1: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150393341825453
V2: https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150468649417950


As Peter pointed out:

https://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=150349072023540

The lockdep current has a limit support for recursive read locks, the
deadlock case as follow could not be detected:

read_lock(A);
lock(B);
lock(B);
write_lock(A);

I got some inspiration from Gautham R Shenoy:

https://lwn.net/Articles/332801/

, and came up with this series.

The basic idea is:

* Add recursive read locks into the graph

* Classify dependencies into --(RR)-->, --(NR)-->, --(RN)-->,
--(NN)-->, where R stands for recursive read lock, N stands for
other locks(i.e. non-recursive read locks and write locks).

* Define strong dependency paths as the paths of dependencies
don't have two adjacent dependencies as --(*R)--> and --(R*)-->.

* Extend __bfs() to only traverse on strong dependency paths.

* If __bfs() finds a strong dependency circle, then a deadlock is
reported.

The whole series is based on current master branch of tip tree:

a35205980288 ("Merge branch 'WIP.x86/fpu'")

, and I also put it at:

git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/boqun/linux.git arr-rfc-v3

The whole series consists of 14 patches:

1. Do a clean up on the return value of __bfs() and its friends.

2. Make __bfs() able to visit every dependency until a match is
found. The old version of __bfs() could only visit each lock
class once, and this is insufficient if we are going to add
recursive read locks into the dependency graph.

3. Redefine LOCK*_STATE*, now LOCK*_STATE_RR stand for recursive
read lock only and LOCK*_STATE stand for write lock and
non-recursive read lock.

4-5 Extend __bfs() to be able to traverse the stong dependency
patchs after recursive read locks added into the graph.

6-8 Adjust check_redundant(), check_noncircular() and
check_irq_usage() with recursive read locks into consideration.

9. Finally add recursive read locks into the dependency graph.

10-11 Adjust lock cache chain key generation with recursive read locks
into consideration, and provide a test case.

12-13 Add more test cases.

14. Revert commit d82fed752942 ("locking/lockdep/selftests: Fix
mixed read-write ABBA tests"),

This series passed all the lockdep selftest cases(including those I
introduce). Will play more other tests, and in the meanwhile hope to
hear your thoughts about this.

Test and comments are welcome!

Regards,
Boqun