Re: [PATCH v3] lockdep: Allow tuning tracing capacity constants.

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 11:30:05PM +0900, Tetsuo Handa wrote:
> The problem is that we can't know what exactly is consuming these resources.
> My question is do you have a plan to make it possible to know what exactly is
> consuming these resources.

I'm pretty sure it's in /proc/lockdep* somewhere.

IIRC you were suffering from "MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES too low!", which you
find in alloc_list_entry(), that's used in add_lock_to_list(), which in
turn is used in check_prev_add() to add to ->locks_after and
->locks_before.

/me frobs in lockdep_proc.c and finds l_show() uses locks_after,
l_show() is the implementation for /proc/lockdep.

So something like:

$ grep "^ ->" /proc/lockdep | wc -l
5064

Should be roughly half (it only shows the forward dependencies) the
number of list_entries used.

/proc/lockdep_stats: direct dependencies:                 11886 [max: 32768]

gives the number of list_entries used

Trick then is finding where they all go, because as you can see, my
machine is nowhere near saturated, even though it's been running a few
days.

So, go forth and analyize your problem.