Re: [RFC v7 11/19] lockdep: Fix recursive read lock related safe->unsafe detection

[Boqun Feng]

On Wed, Sep 16, 2020 at 05:11:59PM -0400, Qian Cai wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-09-17 at 00:14 +0800, Boqun Feng wrote:
> > Found a way to resolve this while still keeping the BFS. Every time when
> > we want to enqueue a lock_list, we basically enqueue a whole dep list of
> > entries from the previous lock_list, so we can use a trick here: instead
> > enqueue all the entries, we only enqueue the first entry and we can
> > fetch other silbing entries with list_next_or_null_rcu(). Patch as
> > below, I also took the chance to clear the code up and add more
> > comments. I could see this number (in /proc/lockdep_stats):
> > 
> > 	max bfs queue depth:                   201
> > 
> > down to (after apply this patch)
> > 
> > 	max bfs queue depth:                   61
> > 
> > with x86_64_defconfig along with lockdep and selftest configs.
> > 
> > Qian, could you give it a try?
> 
> It works fine as the number went down from around 3000 to 500 on our workloads.
> 

Thanks, let me send a proper patch. I will add a Reported-by tag from
you.

Regards,
Boqun