lib/Kconfig.debug: do not enable DEBUG_PREEMPT by default

In workloads where this_cpu operations are frequently performed,
enabling DEBUG_PREEMPT may result in significant increase in
runtime overhead due to frequent invocation of
__this_cpu_preempt_check() function.

This can be demonstrated through benchmarks such as hackbench where this
configuration results in a 10% reduction in performance, primarily due to
the added overhead within memcg charging path.

Therefore, do not to enable DEBUG_PREEMPT by default and make users aware
of its potential impact on performance in some workloads.

hackbench-process-sockets
		      debug_preempt	 no_debug_preempt
Amean     1       0.4743 (   0.00%)      0.4295 *   9.45%*
Amean     4       1.4191 (   0.00%)      1.2650 *  10.86%*
Amean     7       2.2677 (   0.00%)      2.0094 *  11.39%*
Amean     12      3.6821 (   0.00%)      3.2115 *  12.78%*
Amean     21      6.6752 (   0.00%)      5.7956 *  13.18%*
Amean     30      9.6646 (   0.00%)      8.5197 *  11.85%*
Amean     48     15.3363 (   0.00%)     13.5559 *  11.61%*
Amean     79     24.8603 (   0.00%)     22.0597 *  11.27%*
Amean     96     30.1240 (   0.00%)     26.8073 *  11.01%*

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230121033942.350387-1-42.hyeyoo@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Hyeonggon Yoo <42.hyeyoo@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Roman Gushchin <roman.gushchin@linux.dev>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@techsingularity.net>
Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net>
Cc: Ben Segall <bsegall@google.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: Daniel Bristot de Oliveira <bristot@redhat.com>
Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>
Cc: Dennis Zhou <dennis@kernel.org>
Cc: Dietmar Eggemann <dietmar.eggemann@arm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Juri Lelli <juri.lelli@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Shakeel Butt <shakeelb@google.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt (Google) <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Valentin Schneider <vschneid@redhat.com>
Cc: Vincent Guittot <vincent.guittot@linaro.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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Hyeonggon Yoo 2023-01-21 12:39:42 +09:00 committed by Andrew Morton
parent f65c35d333
commit cc6003916e

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@ -1246,13 +1246,16 @@ config DEBUG_TIMEKEEPING
config DEBUG_PREEMPT
bool "Debug preemptible kernel"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && PREEMPTION && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
default y
help
If you say Y here then the kernel will use a debug variant of the
commonly used smp_processor_id() function and will print warnings
if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
will detect preemption count underflows.
This option has potential to introduce high runtime overhead,
depending on workload as it triggers debugging routines for each
this_cpu operation. It should only be used for debugging purposes.
menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
config LOCK_DEBUGGING_SUPPORT