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4.6 KiB
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141 lines
4.6 KiB
Groff
.\" Copyright (c) 2001 John H. Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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.\" All rights reserved.
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.\" $FreeBSD$
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.\"
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.Dd February 18, 2001
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.Dt WITNESS 4
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.Os
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.Sh NAME
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.Nm witness
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.Nd lock validation facility
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.Sh SYNOPSIS
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.Cd options WITNESS
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.Cd options WITNESS_KDB
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.Cd options WITNESS_SKIPSPIN
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.Sh DESCRIPTION
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The
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.Nm
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module keeps track of the locks acquired and released by each thread.
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It also keeps track of the order in which locks are acquired with respect
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to each other.
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Each time a lock is acquired,
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.Nm
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uses these two lists to verify that a lock is not being acquired in the
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wrong order.
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If a lock order violation is detected, then a message is output to the
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kernel console detailing the locks involved and the locations in question.
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Witness can also be configured to drop into the kernel debugger when an order
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violation occurs.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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code also checks various other conditions such as verifying that one
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does not recurse on a non-recursive lock.
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For sleep locks,
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.Nm
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verifies that a new process would not be switched to when a lock is released
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or a lock is blocked on during an acquire while any spin locks are held.
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If any of these checks fail, then the kernel will panic.
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.Pp
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The flag that controls whether or not the kernel debugger is entered when a
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lock order violation is detected can be set in a variety of ways.
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By default, the flag is off, but if the
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.Dv WITNESS_KDB
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kernel option is
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specified, then the flag will default to on.
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It can also be set from the
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.Xr loader 8
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via the
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.Va debug.witness.kdb
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environment variable or after the kernel has booted via the
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.Va debug.witness.kdb
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sysctl.
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If the flag is set to zero, then the debugger will not be entered.
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If the flag is non-zero, then the debugger will be entered.
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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code can also be configured to skip all checks on spin mutexes.
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By default, this flag defaults to off, but it can be turned on by
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specifying the
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.Dv WITNESS_SKIPSPIN
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kernel option.
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The flag can also be set via the
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.Xr loader 8
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environment variable
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.Va debug.witness.skipspin .
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If the variable is set to a non-zero value, then spin mutexes are skipped.
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Once the kernel has booted, the status of this flag can be examined but not
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set via the read-only sysctl
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.Va debug.witness.skipspin .
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.Pp
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The sysctl
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.Va debug.witness.watch
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specifies the level of witness involvment in the system.
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A value of 1 specifies that witness is enabled.
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A value of 0 specifies that witness is disabled.
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This sysctl can be written to in order to
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disable witness, however it may not be used to enable witness.
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.Va debug.witness.watch
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can be set via
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.Xr loader 8 .
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.Pp
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The
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.Nm
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code also provides two extra
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.Xr ddb 4
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commands if both
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.Nm
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and
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.Xr ddb 4
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are compiled into the kernel:
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.Bl -ohang
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.It Ic show locks
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Outputs the list of locks held by the current thread to the kernel console
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along with the filename and line number at which each lock was last acquired
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by this thread.
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.It Ic show witness
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Dump the current order list to the kernel console.
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The code first displays the lock order tree for all of the sleep locks.
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Then it displays the lock order tree for all of the spin locks.
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Finally, it displays a list of locks that have not yet been acquired.
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.El
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.Sh SEE ALSO
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.Xr ddb 4 ,
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.Xr mutex 9
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.Sh HISTORY
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The
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.Nm
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code first appeared in
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.Bsx 5.0
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and was imported from there into
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.Fx 5.0 .
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.Sh BUGS
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The
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.Nm
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code currently does not handle recursion of shared
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.Xr sx 9
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locks properly.
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