locking/lockdep: Remove the cross-release locking checks

This code (CONFIG_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE=y and CONFIG_LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS=y),
while it found a number of old bugs initially, was also causing too many
false positives that caused people to disable lockdep - which is arguably
a worse overall outcome.

If we disable cross-release by default but keep the code upstream then
in practice the most likely outcome is that we'll allow the situation
to degrade gradually, by allowing entropy to introduce more and more
false positives, until it overwhelms maintenance capacity.

Another bad side effect was that people were trying to work around
the false positives by uglifying/complicating unrelated code. There's
a marked difference between annotating locking operations and
uglifying good code just due to bad lock debugging code ...

This gradual decrease in quality happened to a number of debugging
facilities in the kernel, and lockdep is pretty complex already,
so we cannot risk this outcome.

Either cross-release checking can be done right with no false positives,
or it should not be included in the upstream kernel.

( Note that it might make sense to maintain it out of tree and go through
  the false positives every now and then and see whether new bugs were
  introduced. )

Cc: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
This commit is contained in:
Ingo Molnar
2017-12-12 12:31:16 +01:00
parent d89c70356a
commit e966eaeeb6
6 changed files with 38 additions and 1708 deletions

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@@ -1099,8 +1099,6 @@ config PROVE_LOCKING
select DEBUG_MUTEXES
select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
select LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
select LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
default n
help
@@ -1170,37 +1168,6 @@ config LOCK_STAT
CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events.
(CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.)
config LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
bool
help
This makes lockdep work for crosslock which is a lock allowed to
be released in a different context from the acquisition context.
Normally a lock must be released in the context acquiring the lock.
However, relexing this constraint helps synchronization primitives
such as page locks or completions can use the lock correctness
detector, lockdep.
config LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
bool
help
A deadlock caused by wait_for_completion() and complete() can be
detected by lockdep using crossrelease feature.
config BOOTPARAM_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE_FULLSTACK
bool "Enable the boot parameter, crossrelease_fullstack"
depends on LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
default n
help
The lockdep "cross-release" feature needs to record stack traces
(of calling functions) for all acquisitions, for eventual later
use during analysis. By default only a single caller is recorded,
because the unwind operation can be very expensive with deeper
stack chains.
However a boot parameter, crossrelease_fullstack, was
introduced since sometimes deeper traces are required for full
analysis. This option turns on the boot parameter.
config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP