Re: regression/bisected commit 773688a6cb24b0b3c2ba40354d883348a2befa38 make my system completely unusable under high load

From: Mikhail Gavrilov
Date: Fri Feb 02 2024 - 15:15:36 EST


On Fri, Feb 2, 2024 at 10:20 PM Marco Elver <elver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> Your config has lockdep enabled, right?

Yes.

> Because cc478e0b6bdf was fixing an issue with lockdep, does your kernel
> before that commit show some lockdep errors?

Let's check it, I attached the kernel log of aaa2c9a97c22.

mikhail@primary-ws ~> uname -r
6.7.0-c11-aaa2c9a97c22af5bf011f6dd8e0538219b45af88+
mikhail@primary-ws ~> sudo dmesg | grep lockdep
[sudo] password for mikhail:
[ 3.115891] rcu: RCU lockdep checking is enabled.
[ 3.125718] The code is fine but needs lockdep annotation, or maybe
[ 3.125786] ? lockdep_init_map_type+0x1a5/0x840
[ 12.967789] INFO: lockdep is turned off.

> Because if lockdep encounters an error it usually
> turns itself off right away, which would explain the improved
> performance. :-)

You are right.
Thanks for digging into it!

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Best Regards,
Mike Gavrilov.

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