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From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Chris Wilson <chris@chris-wilson.co.uk>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: __mutex_lock_common() unlikely very likely
Date: Wed, 18 Jan 2017 15:58:24 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170118155824.689a9996@gandalf.local.home> (raw)

Chris,

My branch tracer flagged the unlikely in __mutex_lock_common() as
always hit. That's the:

	if (use_ww_ctx) {
		[...]
		if (unlikely(ww_ctx == READ_ONCE(ww->ctx)))
			return -EALREADY;
	}

This is hit 100% of the time, and its coming from the drm logic:

for example:

<stack trace>
 => drm_atomic_get_crtc_state
 => drm_atomic_helper_duplicate_state
 => intel_modeset_init
 => i915_driver_load
 => i915_pci_probe
 => local_pci_probe
 => pci_device_probe
 => driver_probe_device
 => __driver_attach
 => bus_for_each_dev
 => driver_attach
 => bus_add_driver
 => driver_register
 => __pci_register_driver
 => ext4_has_free_clusters
 => do_one_initcall
 => do_init_module
 => load_module
 => SYSC_init_module
 => SyS_init_module
 => entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath

This is happening on 3 boxes of mine running normal loads (servers,
email, facebook, etc).

Commit 0422e83d84ae2 says:

    Recursive locking for ww_mutexes was originally conceived as an
    exception. However, it is heavily used by the DRM atomic modesetting
    code. Currently, the recursive deadlock is checked after we have queued
    up for a busy-spin and as we never release the lock, we spin until
    kicked, whereupon the deadlock is discovered and reported.

Should this be converted to a likely?

-- Steve

             reply	other threads:[~2017-01-18 21:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-01-18 20:58 Steven Rostedt [this message]
2017-01-19  8:55 ` __mutex_lock_common() unlikely very likely Chris Wilson
2017-01-19 13:32   ` Steven Rostedt
2017-01-19 13:54   ` [PATCH] mutex: Remove ww_ctx unlikely() from __mutex_lock_common() Steven Rostedt (VMware)
2017-01-19 16:42     ` Peter Zijlstra
2017-01-19 16:50       ` Steven Rostedt

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