From: Lukasz Luba <l.luba@partner.samsung.com>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: l.luba@partner.samsung.com, b.zolnierkie@samsung.com,
longman@redhat.com, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: [PATCH] lib/Kconfig.debug: add a comment to PROVE_LOCKING impact
Date: Tue, 9 Oct 2018 17:39:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181009153959eucas1p1ab3c10ba4868a4e97a1bff24d8f34c41~b_u5xrZ3z3130331303eucas1p1U@eucas1p1.samsung.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: CGME20181009153959eucas1p1ab3c10ba4868a4e97a1bff24d8f34c41@eucas1p1.samsung.com
This patch add some comment related to performance impact,
which can be really big (x3 times slower context switch).
Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <l.luba@partner.samsung.com>
---
lib/Kconfig.debug | 11 +++++++++++
1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 4966c4f..9e67a2a3 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -1088,6 +1088,9 @@ config PROVE_LOCKING
the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
+ This feature enables LOCKDEP which can harm system performance
+ even x3 times.
+
For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
config LOCK_STAT
@@ -1112,6 +1115,10 @@ config LOCK_STAT
CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
(CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
+ This feature enables LOCKDEP which can harm system performance
+ even x3 times.
+ For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
+
config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
@@ -1175,6 +1182,10 @@ config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
held during task exit.
+ This feature enables LOCKDEP which can harm system performance
+ even x3 times.
+ For more details, see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.txt.
+
config LOCKDEP
bool
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT
--
2.7.4
next parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-09 15:40 UTC|newest]
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2018-10-09 15:39 ` Lukasz Luba [this message]
2018-10-09 15:53 ` [PATCH] lib/Kconfig.debug: add a comment to PROVE_LOCKING impact Nikolay Borisov
2018-10-09 17:29 ` Waiman Long
2018-10-10 8:42 ` Lukasz Luba
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