[PATCH v2 0/6] locking/lockdep: Reuse zapped chain_hlocks entries

[Waiman Long]

 v2:
  - Revamp the chain_hlocks reuse patch to store the freed chain_hlocks
    information in the chain_hlocks entries themselves avoiding the
    need of a separate set of tracking structures. This, however,
    requires a minimum allocation size of at least 2. Thanks to PeterZ
    for his review and inspiring this change.
  - Remove the leakage counter as it is no longer applicable.
  - Add patch 6 to make the output of /proc/lockdep_chains more readable.

It was found that when running a workload that kept on adding lock
classes and then zapping them repetitively, the system will eventually
run out of chain_hlocks[] entries even though there were still plenty
of other lockdep data buffers available.

  [ 4318.443670] BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_HLOCKS too low!
  [ 4318.444809] turning off the locking correctness validator.

In order to fix this problem, we have to make chain_hlocks[] entries
reusable just like other lockdep arrays. Besides that, the patchset
also adds some zapped class and chain_hlocks counters to be tracked by
/proc/lockdep_stats. It also fixes leakage in the irq context counters
and makes the output of /proc/lockdep_chains more readable.

Waiman Long (6):
  locking/lockdep: Track number of zapped classes
  locking/lockdep: Throw away all lock chains with zapped class
  locking/lockdep: Track number of zapped lock chains
  locking/lockdep: Reuse freed chain_hlocks entries
  locking/lockdep: Decrement irq context counters when removing lock
    chain
  locking/lockdep: Display irq_context names in /proc/lockdep_chains

 kernel/locking/lockdep.c           | 307 +++++++++++++++++++++++------
 kernel/locking/lockdep_internals.h |  14 +-
 kernel/locking/lockdep_proc.c      |  26 ++-
 3 files changed, 282 insertions(+), 65 deletions(-)

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