Hi Linus and folks,
I've been developing a tool for detecting deadlock possibilities by tracking wait/event rather than lock(?) acquisition order to try to cover all synchonization machanisms. It's done on v5.17-rc1 tag.
https://github.com/lgebyungchulpark/linux-dept/commits/dept1.13_on_v5.17-rc1
Benifit:
0. Works with all lock primitives. 1. Works with wait_for_completion()/complete(). 2. Works with 'wait' on PG_locked. 3. Works with 'wait' on PG_writeback. 4. Works with swait/wakeup. 5. Works with waitqueue. 6. Multiple reports are allowed. 7. Deduplication control on multiple reports. 8. Withstand false positives thanks to 6. 9. Easy to tag any wait/event.
Future work:
0. To make it more stable. 1. To separates Dept from Lockdep. 2. To improves performance in terms of time and space. 3. To use Dept as a dependency engine for Lockdep. 4. To add any missing tags of wait/event in the kernel. 5. To deduplicate stack trace.
How to interpret reports:
1. E(event) in each context cannot be triggered because of the W(wait) that cannot be woken. 2. The stack trace helping find the problematic code is located in each conext's detail.
Thanks, Byungchul
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Changes from v1:
1. Fix coding style and typo. (feedback from Steven) 2. Distinguish each work context from another in workqueue. 3. Skip checking lock acquisition with nest_lock, which is about correct lock usage that should be checked by Lockdep.
Changes from RFC:
1. Prevent adding a wait tag at prepare_to_wait() but __schedule(). (feedback from Linus and Matthew) 2. Use try version at lockdep_acquire_cpus_lock() annotation. 3. Distinguish each syscall context from another.
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Byungchul Park (18): llist: Move llist_{head,node} definition to types.h dept: Implement Dept(Dependency Tracker) dept: Embed Dept data in Lockdep dept: Add a API for skipping dependency check temporarily dept: Apply Dept to spinlock dept: Apply Dept to mutex families dept: Apply Dept to rwlock dept: Apply Dept to wait_for_completion()/complete() dept: Apply Dept to seqlock dept: Apply Dept to rwsem dept: Add proc knobs to show stats and dependency graph dept: Introduce split map concept and new APIs for them dept: Apply Dept to wait/event of PG_{locked,writeback} dept: Apply SDT to swait dept: Apply SDT to wait(waitqueue) locking/lockdep, cpu/hotplus: Use a weaker annotation in AP thread dept: Distinguish each syscall context from another dept: Distinguish each work from another
include/linux/completion.h | 42 +- include/linux/dept.h | 535 +++++++ include/linux/dept_page.h | 78 ++ include/linux/dept_sdt.h | 62 + include/linux/hardirq.h | 3 + include/linux/irqflags.h | 33 +- include/linux/llist.h | 8 - include/linux/lockdep.h | 158 ++- include/linux/lockdep_types.h | 3 + include/linux/mutex.h | 33 + include/linux/page-flags.h | 45 +- include/linux/pagemap.h | 7 +- include/linux/percpu-rwsem.h | 10 +- include/linux/rtmutex.h | 7 + include/linux/rwlock.h | 52 + include/linux/rwlock_api_smp.h | 8 +- include/linux/rwlock_types.h | 7 + include/linux/rwsem.h | 33 + include/linux/sched.h | 7 + include/linux/seqlock.h | 59 +- include/linux/spinlock.h | 26 + include/linux/spinlock_types_raw.h | 13 + include/linux/swait.h | 4 + include/linux/types.h | 8 + include/linux/wait.h | 6 +- init/init_task.c | 2 + init/main.c | 4 + kernel/Makefile | 1 + kernel/cpu.c | 2 +- kernel/dependency/Makefile | 4 + kernel/dependency/dept.c | 2710 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ kernel/dependency/dept_hash.h | 10 + kernel/dependency/dept_internal.h | 26 + kernel/dependency/dept_object.h | 13 + kernel/dependency/dept_proc.c | 92 ++ kernel/entry/common.c | 3 + kernel/exit.c | 1 + kernel/fork.c | 2 + kernel/locking/lockdep.c | 12 +- kernel/module.c | 2 + kernel/sched/completion.c | 12 +- kernel/sched/core.c | 3 + kernel/sched/swait.c | 10 + kernel/sched/wait.c | 16 + kernel/softirq.c | 6 +- kernel/trace/trace_preemptirq.c | 19 +- kernel/workqueue.c | 3 + lib/Kconfig.debug | 21 + mm/filemap.c | 68 + mm/page_ext.c | 5 + 50 files changed, 4237 insertions(+), 57 deletions(-) create mode 100644 include/linux/dept.h create mode 100644 include/linux/dept_page.h create mode 100644 include/linux/dept_sdt.h create mode 100644 kernel/dependency/Makefile create mode 100644 kernel/dependency/dept.c create mode 100644 kernel/dependency/dept_hash.h create mode 100644 kernel/dependency/dept_internal.h create mode 100644 kernel/dependency/dept_object.h create mode 100644 kernel/dependency/dept_proc.c