On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 04:51:21PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
 > On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 10:39:57AM -0500, Sasha Levin wrote:
 > > That discusses lockdep classes, which is actually fine in my case. I ran 
 > > out of
 > > MAX_LOCKDEP_ENTRIES, which isn't mentioned anywhere in Documentation/ .
 > 
 > Yeah, it suffers from the same problem though. Lockdep has static
 > resource allocation and never frees them.
 > 
 > The lock classes are the smallest pool and usually run out first, but
 > the same could happen for the entries, after all, the more classes we
 > have the more class connections can happen.
 > 
 > Anyway, barring a leak and silly class mistakes like mentioned in the
 > document there's nothing we can do except raise the number.

I tried this. When you bump it to 32k, it fares better but then you
start seeing "BUG: MAX_LOCKDEP_CHAINS too low!" instead.
I've not tried bumping that yet, as I've stopped seeing these lately
due to hitting more serious bugs first.

        Dave

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