Re: [PATCH v1 3/3] locking/lockdep,doc: Correct the max number of lock classes

From: Waiman Long
Date: Sun Jul 11 2021 - 11:22:54 EST


On 7/11/21 10:14 AM, Xiongwei Song wrote:
From: Xiongwei Song <sxwjean@xxxxxxxxx>

The max number of lock classes is 8192.

Signed-off-by: Xiongwei Song <sxwjean@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@xxxxxxx>
Cc: linux-doc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
---
Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst b/Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst
index 82f36cab61bd..5c2dcec684ff 100644
--- a/Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst
+++ b/Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst
@@ -341,7 +341,7 @@ Exceeding this number will trigger the following lockdep warning::
(DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(id >= MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS))
-By default, MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS is currently set to 8191, and typical
+By default, MAX_LOCKDEP_KEYS is currently set to 8192, and typical
desktop systems have less than 1,000 lock classes, so this warning
normally results from lock-class leakage or failure to properly
initialize locks. These two problems are illustrated below:
@@ -383,7 +383,7 @@ you the number of lock classes currently in use along with the maximum::
This command produces the following output on a modest system::
- lock-classes: 748 [max: 8191]
+ lock-classes: 748 [max: 8192]
If the number allocated (748 above) increases continually over time,
then there is likely a leak. The following command can be used to

Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@xxxxxxxxxx>