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Diffstat (limited to 'kernel/locking/lock_events.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/locking/lock_events.h | 45 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 41 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/lock_events.h b/kernel/locking/lock_events.h index 46b71af8eef2..8c7e7d25f09c 100644 --- a/kernel/locking/lock_events.h +++ b/kernel/locking/lock_events.h @@ -31,50 +31,13 @@ enum lock_events { DECLARE_PER_CPU(unsigned long, lockevents[lockevent_num]); /* - * The purpose of the lock event counting subsystem is to provide a low - * overhead way to record the number of specific locking events by using - * percpu counters. It is the percpu sum that matters, not specifically - * how many of them happens in each cpu. - * - * It is possible that the same percpu counter may be modified in both - * the process and interrupt contexts. For architectures that perform - * percpu operation with multiple instructions, it is possible to lose - * count if a process context percpu update is interrupted in the middle - * and the same counter is updated in the interrupt context. Therefore, - * the generated percpu sum may not be precise. The error, if any, should - * be small and insignificant. - * - * For those architectures that do multi-instruction percpu operation, - * preemption in the middle and moving the task to another cpu may cause - * a larger error in the count. Again, this will be few and far between. - * Given the imprecise nature of the count and the possibility of resetting - * the count and doing the measurement again, this is not really a big - * problem. - * - * To get a better picture of what is happening under the hood, it is - * suggested that a few measurements should be taken with the counts - * reset in between to stamp out outliner because of these possible - * error conditions. - * - * To minimize overhead, we use __this_cpu_*() in all cases except when - * CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT is defined. In this particular case, this_cpu_*() - * will be used to avoid the appearance of unwanted BUG messages. - */ -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PREEMPT -#define lockevent_percpu_inc(x) this_cpu_inc(x) -#define lockevent_percpu_add(x, v) this_cpu_add(x, v) -#else -#define lockevent_percpu_inc(x) __this_cpu_inc(x) -#define lockevent_percpu_add(x, v) __this_cpu_add(x, v) -#endif - -/* - * Increment the PV qspinlock statistical counters + * Increment the statistical counters. use raw_cpu_inc() because of lower + * overhead and we don't care if we loose the occasional update. */ static inline void __lockevent_inc(enum lock_events event, bool cond) { if (cond) - lockevent_percpu_inc(lockevents[event]); + raw_cpu_inc(lockevents[event]); } #define lockevent_inc(ev) __lockevent_inc(LOCKEVENT_ ##ev, true) @@ -82,7 +45,7 @@ static inline void __lockevent_inc(enum lock_events event, bool cond) static inline void __lockevent_add(enum lock_events event, int inc) { - lockevent_percpu_add(lockevents[event], inc); + raw_cpu_add(lockevents[event], inc); } #define lockevent_add(ev, c) __lockevent_add(LOCKEVENT_ ##ev, c) |