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Both KASAN and LOCKDEP are commonly enabled in building a debug kernel. Each of them can significantly slow down the speed of a debug kernel. Enabling KASAN instrumentation of the LOCKDEP code will further slow things down. Since LOCKDEP is a high overhead debugging tool, it will never get enabled in a production kernel. The LOCKDEP code is also pretty mature and is unlikely to get major changes. There is also a possibility of recursion similar to KCSAN. To evaluate the performance impact of disabling KASAN instrumentation of lockdep.c, the time to do a parallel build of the Linux defconfig kernel was used as the benchmark. Two x86-64 systems (Skylake & Zen 2) and an arm64 system were used as test beds. Two sets of non-RT and RT kernels with similar configurations except mainly CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT were used for evaluation. For the Skylake system: Kernel Run time Sys time ------ -------- -------- Non-debug kernel (baseline) 0m47.642s 4m19.811s [CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=y] Debug kernel 2m11.108s (x2.8) 38m20.467s (x8.9) Debug kernel (patched) 1m49.602s (x2.3) 31m28.501s (x7.3) Debug kernel (patched + mitigations=off) 1m30.988s (x1.9) 26m41.993s (x6.2) RT kernel (baseline) 0m54.871s 7m15.340s [CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=n] RT debug kernel 6m07.151s (x6.7) 135m47.428s (x18.7) RT debug kernel (patched) 3m42.434s (x4.1) 74m51.636s (x10.3) RT debug kernel (patched + mitigations=off) 2m40.383s (x2.9) 57m54.369s (x8.0) [CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=y] RT debug kernel 3m22.155s (x3.7) 77m53.018s (x10.7) RT debug kernel (patched) 2m36.700s (x2.9) 54m31.195s (x7.5) RT debug kernel (patched + mitigations=off) 2m06.110s (x2.3) 45m49.493s (x6.3) For the Zen 2 system: Kernel Run time Sys time ------ -------- -------- Non-debug kernel (baseline) 1m42.806s 39m48.714s [CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=y] Debug kernel 4m04.524s (x2.4) 125m35.904s (x3.2) Debug kernel (patched) 3m56.241s (x2.3) 127m22.378s (x3.2) Debug kernel (patched + mitigations=off) 2m38.157s (x1.5) 92m35.680s (x2.3) RT kernel (baseline) 1m51.500s 14m56.322s [CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=n] RT debug kernel 16m04.962s (x8.7) 244m36.463s (x16.4) RT debug kernel (patched) 9m09.073s (x4.9) 129m28.439s (x8.7) RT debug kernel (patched + mitigations=off) 3m31.662s (x1.9) 51m01.391s (x3.4) For the arm64 system: Kernel Run time Sys time ------ -------- -------- Non-debug kernel (baseline) 1m56.844s 8m47.150s Debug kernel 3m54.774s (x2.0) 92m30.098s (x10.5) Debug kernel (patched) 3m32.429s (x1.8) 77m40.779s (x8.8) RT kernel (baseline) 4m01.641s 18m16.777s [CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=n] RT debug kernel 19m32.977s (x4.9) 304m23.965s (x16.7) RT debug kernel (patched) 16m28.354s (x4.1) 234m18.149s (x12.8) Turning the mitigations off doesn't seems to have any noticeable impact on the performance of the arm64 system. So the mitigation=off entries aren't included. For the x86 CPUs, CPU mitigations has a much bigger impact on performance, especially the RT debug kernel with CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=n. The SRSO mitigation in Zen 2 has an especially big impact on the debug kernel. It is also the majority of the slowdown with mitigations on. It is because the patched RET instruction slows down function returns. A lot of helper functions that are normally compiled out or inlined may become real function calls in the debug kernel. With !CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE, the KASAN instrumentation inserts a lot of __asan_loadX*() and __kasan_check_read() function calls to memory access portion of the code. The lockdep's __lock_acquire() function, for instance, has 66 __asan_loadX*() and 6 __kasan_check_read() calls added with KASAN instrumentation. Of course, the actual numbers may vary depending on the compiler used and the exact version of the lockdep code. With the Skylake test system, the parallel kernel build times reduction of the RT debug kernel with this patch are: CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=n: -37% CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=y: -22% The time reduction is less with CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=y, but it is still significant. Setting CONFIG_KASAN_INLINE=y can result in a significant performance improvement. The major drawback is a significant increase in the size of kernel text. In the case of vmlinux, its text size increases from 45997948 to 67606807. That is a 47% size increase (about 21 Mbytes). The size increase of other kernel modules should be similar. With the newly added rtmutex and lockdep lock events, the relevant event counts for the test runs with the Skylake system were: Event type Debug kernel RT debug kernel ---------- ------------ --------------- lockdep_acquire 1,968,663,277 5,425,313,953 rtlock_slowlock - 401,701,156 rtmutex_slowlock - 139,672 The __lock_acquire() calls in the RT debug kernel are x2.8 times of the non-RT debug kernel with the same workload. Since the __lock_acquire() function is a big hitter in term of performance slowdown, this makes the RT debug kernel much slower than the non-RT one. The average lock nesting depth is likely to be higher in the RT debug kernel too leading to longer execution time in the __lock_acquire() function. As the small advantage of enabling KASAN instrumentation to catch potential memory access error in the lockdep debugging tool is probably not worth the drawback of further slowing down a debug kernel, disable KASAN instrumentation in the lockdep code to allow the debug kernels to regain some performance back, especially for the RT debug kernels. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Reviewed-by: Marco Elver <elver@google.com> Reviewed-by: Andrey Konovalov <andreyknvl@gmail.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250307232717.1759087-6-boqun.feng@gmail.com |
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Linux kernel
============
There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the reStructuredText markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.