Documentation/lockstat.txt

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   2 LOCK STATISTICS
   3
   4 - WHAT
   5
   6 As the name suggests, it provides statistics on locks.
   7
   8 - WHY
   9
  10 Because things like lock contention can severely impact performance.
  11
  12 - HOW
  13
  14 Lockdep already has hooks in the lock functions and maps lock instances to
  15 lock classes. We build on that (see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt).
  16 The graph below shows the relation between the lock functions and the various
  17 hooks therein.
  18
  19         __acquire
  20             |
  21            lock _____
  22             |        \
  23             |    __contended
  24             |         |
  25             |       <wait>
  26             | _______/
  27             |/
  28             |
  29        __acquired
  30             |
  31             .
  32           <hold>
  33             .
  34             |
  35        __release
  36             |
  37          unlock
  38
  39 lock, unlock    - the regular lock functions
  40 __*             - the hooks
  41 <>              - states
  42
  43 With these hooks we provide the following statistics:
  44
  45  con-bounces       - number of lock contention that involved x-cpu data
  46  contentions       - number of lock acquisitions that had to wait
  47  wait time min     - shortest (non-0) time we ever had to wait for a lock
  48            max     - longest time we ever had to wait for a lock
  49            total   - total time we spend waiting on this lock
  50            avg     - average time spent waiting on this lock
  51  acq-bounces       - number of lock acquisitions that involved x-cpu data
  52  acquisitions      - number of times we took the lock
  53  hold time min     - shortest (non-0) time we ever held the lock
  54            max     - longest time we ever held the lock
  55            total   - total time this lock was held
  56            avg     - average time this lock was held
  57
  58 These numbers are gathered per lock class, per read/write state (when
  59 applicable).
  60
  61 It also tracks 4 contention points per class. A contention point is a call site
  62 that had to wait on lock acquisition.
  63
  64  - CONFIGURATION
  65
  66 Lock statistics are enabled via CONFIG_LOCK_STAT.
  67
  68  - USAGE
  69
  70 Enable collection of statistics:
  71
  72 # echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat
  73
  74 Disable collection of statistics:
  75
  76 # echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat
  77
  78 Look at the current lock statistics:
  79
  80 ( line numbers not part of actual output, done for clarity in the explanation
  81   below )
  82
  83 # less /proc/lock_stat
  84
  85 01 lock_stat version 0.4
  86 02-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  87 03                              class name    con-bounces    contentions   waittime-min   waittime-max waittime-total   waittime-avg    acq-bounces   acquisitions   holdtime-min   holdtime-max holdtime-total   holdtime-avg
  88 04-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
  89 05
  90 06                         &mm->mmap_sem-W:            46             84           0.26         939.10       16371.53         194.90          47291        2922365           0.16     2220301.69 17464026916.32        5975.99
  91 07                         &mm->mmap_sem-R:            37            100           1.31      299502.61      325629.52        3256.30         212344       34316685           0.10        7744.91    95016910.20           2.77
  92 08                         ---------------
  93 09                           &mm->mmap_sem              1          [<ffffffff811502a7>] khugepaged_scan_mm_slot+0x57/0x280
  94 19                           &mm->mmap_sem             96          [<ffffffff815351c4>] __do_page_fault+0x1d4/0x510
  95 11                           &mm->mmap_sem             34          [<ffffffff81113d77>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0x87/0xd0
  96 12                           &mm->mmap_sem             17          [<ffffffff81127e71>] vm_munmap+0x41/0x80
  97 13                         ---------------
  98 14                           &mm->mmap_sem              1          [<ffffffff81046fda>] dup_mmap+0x2a/0x3f0
  99 15                           &mm->mmap_sem             60          [<ffffffff81129e29>] SyS_mprotect+0xe9/0x250
 100 16                           &mm->mmap_sem             41          [<ffffffff815351c4>] __do_page_fault+0x1d4/0x510
 101 17                           &mm->mmap_sem             68          [<ffffffff81113d77>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0x87/0xd0
 102 18
 103 19.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 104 20
 105 21                         unix_table_lock:           110            112           0.21          49.24         163.91           1.46          21094          66312           0.12         624.42       31589.81           0.48
 106 22                         ---------------
 107 23                         unix_table_lock             45          [<ffffffff8150ad8e>] unix_create1+0x16e/0x1b0
 108 24                         unix_table_lock             47          [<ffffffff8150b111>] unix_release_sock+0x31/0x250
 109 25                         unix_table_lock             15          [<ffffffff8150ca37>] unix_find_other+0x117/0x230
 110 26                         unix_table_lock              5          [<ffffffff8150a09f>] unix_autobind+0x11f/0x1b0
 111 27                         ---------------
 112 28                         unix_table_lock             39          [<ffffffff8150b111>] unix_release_sock+0x31/0x250
 113 29                         unix_table_lock             49          [<ffffffff8150ad8e>] unix_create1+0x16e/0x1b0
 114 30                         unix_table_lock             20          [<ffffffff8150ca37>] unix_find_other+0x117/0x230
 115 31                         unix_table_lock              4          [<ffffffff8150a09f>] unix_autobind+0x11f/0x1b0
 116
 117
 118 This excerpt shows the first two lock class statistics. Line 01 shows the
 119 output version - each time the format changes this will be updated. Line 02-04
 120 show the header with column descriptions. Lines 05-18 and 20-31 show the actual
 121 statistics. These statistics come in two parts; the actual stats separated by a
 122 short separator (line 08, 13) from the contention points.
 123
 124 The first lock (05-18) is a read/write lock, and shows two lines above the
 125 short separator. The contention points don't match the column descriptors,
 126 they have two: contentions and [<IP>] symbol. The second set of contention
 127 points are the points we're contending with.
 128
 129 The integer part of the time values is in us.
 130
 131 Dealing with nested locks, subclasses may appear:
 132
 133 32...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 134 33
 135 34                               &rq->lock:       13128          13128           0.43         190.53      103881.26           7.91          97454        3453404           0.00         401.11    13224683.11           3.82
 136 35                               ---------
 137 36                               &rq->lock          645          [<ffffffff8103bfc4>] task_rq_lock+0x43/0x75
 138 37                               &rq->lock          297          [<ffffffff8104ba65>] try_to_wake_up+0x127/0x25a
 139 38                               &rq->lock          360          [<ffffffff8103c4c5>] select_task_rq_fair+0x1f0/0x74a
 140 39                               &rq->lock          428          [<ffffffff81045f98>] scheduler_tick+0x46/0x1fb
 141 40                               ---------
 142 41                               &rq->lock           77          [<ffffffff8103bfc4>] task_rq_lock+0x43/0x75
 143 42                               &rq->lock          174          [<ffffffff8104ba65>] try_to_wake_up+0x127/0x25a
 144 43                               &rq->lock         4715          [<ffffffff8103ed4b>] double_rq_lock+0x42/0x54
 145 44                               &rq->lock          893          [<ffffffff81340524>] schedule+0x157/0x7b8
 146 45
 147 46...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
 148 47
 149 48                             &rq->lock/1:        1526          11488           0.33         388.73      136294.31          11.86          21461          38404           0.00          37.93      109388.53           2.84
 150 49                             -----------
 151 50                             &rq->lock/1        11526          [<ffffffff8103ed58>] double_rq_lock+0x4f/0x54
 152 51                             -----------
 153 52                             &rq->lock/1         5645          [<ffffffff8103ed4b>] double_rq_lock+0x42/0x54
 154 53                             &rq->lock/1         1224          [<ffffffff81340524>] schedule+0x157/0x7b8
 155 54                             &rq->lock/1         4336          [<ffffffff8103ed58>] double_rq_lock+0x4f/0x54
 156 55                             &rq->lock/1          181          [<ffffffff8104ba65>] try_to_wake_up+0x127/0x25a
 157
 158 Line 48 shows statistics for the second subclass (/1) of &rq->lock class
 159 (subclass starts from 0), since in this case, as line 50 suggests,
 160 double_rq_lock actually acquires a nested lock of two spinlocks.
 161
 162 View the top contending locks:
 163
 164 # grep : /proc/lock_stat | head
 165                         clockevents_lock:       2926159        2947636           0.15       46882.81  1784540466.34         605.41        3381345        3879161           0.00        2260.97    53178395.68          13.71
 166                      tick_broadcast_lock:        346460         346717           0.18        2257.43    39364622.71         113.54        3642919        4242696           0.00        2263.79    49173646.60          11.59
 167                   &mapping->i_mmap_mutex:        203896         203899           3.36      645530.05 31767507988.39      155800.21        3361776        8893984           0.17        2254.15    14110121.02           1.59
 168                                &rq->lock:        135014         136909           0.18         606.09      842160.68           6.15        1540728       10436146           0.00         728.72    17606683.41           1.69
 169                &(&zone->lru_lock)->rlock:         93000          94934           0.16          59.18      188253.78           1.98        1199912        3809894           0.15         391.40     3559518.81           0.93
 170                          tasklist_lock-W:         40667          41130           0.23        1189.42      428980.51          10.43         270278         510106           0.16         653.51     3939674.91           7.72
 171                          tasklist_lock-R:         21298          21305           0.20        1310.05      215511.12          10.12         186204         241258           0.14        1162.33     1179779.23           4.89
 172                               rcu_node_1:         47656          49022           0.16         635.41      193616.41           3.95         844888        1865423           0.00         764.26     1656226.96           0.89
 173        &(&dentry->d_lockref.lock)->rlock:         39791          40179           0.15        1302.08       88851.96           2.21        2790851       12527025           0.10        1910.75     3379714.27           0.27
 174                               rcu_node_0:         29203          30064           0.16         786.55     1555573.00          51.74          88963         244254           0.00         398.87      428872.51           1.76
 175
 176 Clear the statistics:
 177
 178 # echo 0 > /proc/lock_stat