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authorCarlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com>2024-10-24 18:36:28 +0000
committerBoqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com>2024-12-15 11:49:35 -0800
commitbd7b5ae26618ad2bd6f6264e2cb6c5815d323e75 (patch)
tree7ce772fbdd440022e855925ead3eba5b837c002b
parentlockdep: Clarify size for LOCKDEP_*_BITS configs (diff)
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lockdep: Document MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_HLOCKS calculation
Define a macro AVG_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_DEPTH to document the magic number '5' used in the calculation of MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_HLOCKS. The number represents the estimated average depth (number of locks held) of a lock chain. The calculation of MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_HLOCKS was first added in commit 443cd507ce7f ("lockdep: add lock_class information to lock_chain and output it"). Suggested-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Cc: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: J. R. Okajima <hooanon05g@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Acked-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Carlos Llamas <cmllamas@google.com> Acked-by: "Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20241024183631.643450-4-cmllamas@google.com
-rw-r--r--kernel/locking/lockdep_internals.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/locking/lockdep_internals.h b/kernel/locking/lockdep_internals.h
index bbe9000260d0..20f9ef58d3d0 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/lockdep_internals.h
+++ b/kernel/locking/lockdep_internals.h
@@ -119,7 +119,8 @@ static const unsigned long LOCKF_USED_IN_IRQ_READ =
#define MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS (1UL << MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS_BITS)
-#define MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_HLOCKS (MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS*5)
+#define AVG_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_DEPTH 5
+#define MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_HLOCKS (MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS * AVG_LOCKDEP_CHAIN_DEPTH)
extern struct lock_chain lock_chains[];