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PROVE_LOCKING enables LOCKDEP, which causes big overhead on cache and bus transactions. On some ARM big.LITTLE architecutres (Exynos 5433) the overhead is really big. The overhead can be measures using hackbench which will speed up by x3 times (11sec -> 3.4sec). When you check transaction on cache or buses, the results are way higher than normal for the same hackbench test: L1d cache invalidations: 26mln vs 4mln L2u cache invalidations: 42mln vs 12mln bus cyc/access: 30cyc/access vs. 20cyc/access context switch is x3 times cheaper Enable this option only when you have some locking issue to investigate. Signed-off-by: Lukasz Luba <l.luba@partner.samsung.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Linux kernel
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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 Restructured Text 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.