Re: [PATCH] lockdep: Add nr_save_trace_invocations counter

[Yong Zhang]

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 10:31:16AM +0200, John Kacur wrote:
> > 8752+871+8+95+5+28+543+28+543+15=10888
> >
> > So you get a stack-trace for each direct-dependency, and you get a
> > stack-trace for each LOCK_state, the sum seems to match the total
> > invocations.
> >
> > Non of these numbers look strange..
> >
> 
> As I told Peter privately the laptop that triggered the
> MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES every time, has met an
> unfortunate early demise. However, I think it was the config - not the
> hardware. On this machine where the above
> numbers come from, I believe I have less debug options configured -
> but it is running the exact same kernel as
> the laptop was. (2.6.33.2-rt13)

Through a rough computation:
MAX_STACK_TRACE_ENTRIES/10888 = 24
That means the average stack deepth is about 24.
So I'm thinking if we can take a check on the biggest deepth?
Could this make sense?

Thanks,
Yong

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