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SubjectRe: [PATCH RFC] perf lock: Add new event "lock_acquired_waittime" for contention analysis
On 08/02/10 21:23, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-08-01 at 14:36 +0900, Hitoshi Mitake wrote:
>> I want to make lockdep production kernel feature with dynamic
>> patching.
>
> Not really feasible. Note that enabling lockdep grows the size of
> spinlock_t (and others) quite significantly.
>
> Then there is the problem that you need to pass all tasks through some
> quiesent state in order to enable lockdep (there must be a guarantee of
> no locks held).
>
> Now, we could possibly make it all work, but I'm not at all convinced we
> want to pay the price, which is a much _much_ more complex
> infrastructure.
>
>

I have to agree with the problem of huge cost you mentioned above.

But, I believe that
- lock validation
- lock tracing
- in kernel light weight lock usage statistics
should be divided into individual features, at least.
And tracing and statistics should be available for production kernel,
ideally.

How do you think about this point?


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