docs: locking: convert docs to ReST and rename to *.rst

Convert the locking documents to ReST and add them to the
kernel development book where it belongs.

Most of the stuff here is just to make Sphinx to properly
parse the text file, as they're already in good shape,
not requiring massive changes in order to be parsed.

The conversion is actually:
  - add blank lines and identation in order to identify paragraphs;
  - fix tables markups;
  - add some lists markups;
  - mark literal blocks;
  - adjust title markups.

At its new index.rst, let's add a :orphan: while this is not linked to
the main index.rst file, in order to avoid build warnings.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab+samsung@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Federico Vaga <federico.vaga@vaga.pv.it>

1 files changed, 204 insertions, 0 deletions

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+===============
+Lock Statistics
+===============
+
+What
+====
+
+As the name suggests, it provides statistics on locks.
+
+
+Why
+===
+
+Because things like lock contention can severely impact performance.
+
+How
+===
+
+Lockdep already has hooks in the lock functions and maps lock instances to
+lock classes. We build on that (see Documentation/locking/lockdep-design.rst).
+The graph below shows the relation between the lock functions and the various
+hooks therein::
+
+        __acquire
+            |
+           lock _____
+            |        \
+            |    __contended
+            |         |
+            |       <wait>
+            | _______/
+            |/
+            |
+       __acquired
+            |
+            .
+          <hold>
+            .
+            |
+       __release
+            |
+         unlock
+
+  lock, unlock	- the regular lock functions
+  __*		- the hooks
+  <> 		- states
+
+With these hooks we provide the following statistics:
+
+ con-bounces
+	- number of lock contention that involved x-cpu data
+ contentions
+	- number of lock acquisitions that had to wait
+ wait time
+     min
+	- shortest (non-0) time we ever had to wait for a lock
+     max
+	- longest time we ever had to wait for a lock
+     total
+	- total time we spend waiting on this lock
+     avg
+	- average time spent waiting on this lock
+ acq-bounces
+	- number of lock acquisitions that involved x-cpu data
+ acquisitions
+	- number of times we took the lock
+ hold time
+     min
+	- shortest (non-0) time we ever held the lock
+     max
+	- longest time we ever held the lock
+     total
+	- total time this lock was held
+     avg
+	- average time this lock was held
+
+These numbers are gathered per lock class, per read/write state (when
+applicable).
+
+It also tracks 4 contention points per class. A contention point is a call site
+that had to wait on lock acquisition.
+
+Configuration
+-------------
+
+Lock statistics are enabled via CONFIG_LOCK_STAT.
+
+Usage
+-----
+
+Enable collection of statistics::
+
+	# echo 1 >/proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat
+
+Disable collection of statistics::
+
+	# echo 0 >/proc/sys/kernel/lock_stat
+
+Look at the current lock statistics::
+
+  ( line numbers not part of actual output, done for clarity in the explanation
+    below )
+
+  # less /proc/lock_stat
+
+  01 lock_stat version 0.4
+  02-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  03                              class name    con-bounces    contentions   waittime-min   waittime-max waittime-total   waittime-avg    acq-bounces   acquisitions   holdtime-min   holdtime-max holdtime-total   holdtime-avg
+  04-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
+  05
+  06                         &mm->mmap_sem-W:            46             84           0.26         939.10       16371.53         194.90          47291        2922365           0.16     2220301.69 17464026916.32        5975.99
+  07                         &mm->mmap_sem-R:            37            100           1.31      299502.61      325629.52        3256.30         212344       34316685           0.10        7744.91    95016910.20           2.77
+  08                         ---------------
+  09                           &mm->mmap_sem              1          [<ffffffff811502a7>] khugepaged_scan_mm_slot+0x57/0x280
+  10                           &mm->mmap_sem             96          [<ffffffff815351c4>] __do_page_fault+0x1d4/0x510
+  11                           &mm->mmap_sem             34          [<ffffffff81113d77>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0x87/0xd0
+  12                           &mm->mmap_sem             17          [<ffffffff81127e71>] vm_munmap+0x41/0x80
+  13                         ---------------
+  14                           &mm->mmap_sem              1          [<ffffffff81046fda>] dup_mmap+0x2a/0x3f0
+  15                           &mm->mmap_sem             60          [<ffffffff81129e29>] SyS_mprotect+0xe9/0x250
+  16                           &mm->mmap_sem             41          [<ffffffff815351c4>] __do_page_fault+0x1d4/0x510
+  17                           &mm->mmap_sem             68          [<ffffffff81113d77>] vm_mmap_pgoff+0x87/0xd0
+  18
+  19.............................................................................................................................................................................................................................
+  20
+  21                         unix_table_lock:           110            112           0.21          49.24         163.91           1.46          21094          66312           0.12         624.42       31589.81           0.48
+  22                         ---------------
+  23                         unix_table_lock             45          [<ffffffff8150ad8e>] unix_create1+0x16e/0x1b0
+  24                         unix_table_lock             47          [<ffffffff8150b111>] unix_release_sock+0x31/0x250
+  25                         unix_table_lock             15          [<ffffffff8150ca37>] unix_find_other+0x117/0x230
+  26                         unix_table_lock              5          [<ffffffff8150a09f>] unix_autobind+0x11f/0x1b0
+  27                         ---------------
+  28                         unix_table_lock             39          [<ffffffff8150b111>] unix_release_sock+0x31/0x250
+  29                         unix_table_lock             49          [<ffffffff8150ad8e>] unix_create1+0x16e/0x1b0
+  30                         unix_table_lock             20          [<ffffffff8150ca37>] unix_find_other+0x117/0x230
+  31                         unix_table_lock              4          [<ffffffff8150a09f>] unix_autobind+0x11f/0x1b0
+
+
+This excerpt shows the first two lock class statistics. Line 01 shows the
+output version - each time the format changes this will be updated. Line 02-04
+show the header with column descriptions. Lines 05-18 and 20-31 show the actual
+statistics. These statistics come in two parts; the actual stats separated by a
+short separator (line 08, 13) from the contention points.
+
+Lines 09-12 show the first 4 recorded contention points (the code
+which tries to get the lock) and lines 14-17 show the first 4 recorded
+contended points (the lock holder). It is possible that the max
+con-bounces point is missing in the statistics.
+
+The first lock (05-18) is a read/write lock, and shows two lines above the
+short separator. The contention points don't match the column descriptors,
+they have two: contentions and [<IP>] symbol. The second set of contention
+points are the points we're contending with.
+
+The integer part of the time values is in us.
+
+Dealing with nested locks, subclasses may appear::
+
+  32...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
+  33
+  34                               &rq->lock:       13128          13128           0.43         190.53      103881.26           7.91          97454        3453404           0.00         401.11    13224683.11           3.82
+  35                               ---------
+  36                               &rq->lock          645          [<ffffffff8103bfc4>] task_rq_lock+0x43/0x75
+  37                               &rq->lock          297          [<ffffffff8104ba65>] try_to_wake_up+0x127/0x25a
+  38                               &rq->lock          360          [<ffffffff8103c4c5>] select_task_rq_fair+0x1f0/0x74a
+  39                               &rq->lock          428          [<ffffffff81045f98>] scheduler_tick+0x46/0x1fb
+  40                               ---------
+  41                               &rq->lock           77          [<ffffffff8103bfc4>] task_rq_lock+0x43/0x75
+  42                               &rq->lock          174          [<ffffffff8104ba65>] try_to_wake_up+0x127/0x25a
+  43                               &rq->lock         4715          [<ffffffff8103ed4b>] double_rq_lock+0x42/0x54
+  44                               &rq->lock          893          [<ffffffff81340524>] schedule+0x157/0x7b8
+  45
+  46...........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
+  47
+  48                             &rq->lock/1:        1526          11488           0.33         388.73      136294.31          11.86          21461          38404           0.00          37.93      109388.53           2.84
+  49                             -----------
+  50                             &rq->lock/1        11526          [<ffffffff8103ed58>] double_rq_lock+0x4f/0x54
+  51                             -----------
+  52                             &rq->lock/1         5645          [<ffffffff8103ed4b>] double_rq_lock+0x42/0x54
+  53                             &rq->lock/1         1224          [<ffffffff81340524>] schedule+0x157/0x7b8
+  54                             &rq->lock/1         4336          [<ffffffff8103ed58>] double_rq_lock+0x4f/0x54
+  55                             &rq->lock/1          181          [<ffffffff8104ba65>] try_to_wake_up+0x127/0x25a
+
+Line 48 shows statistics for the second subclass (/1) of &rq->lock class
+(subclass starts from 0), since in this case, as line 50 suggests,
+double_rq_lock actually acquires a nested lock of two spinlocks.
+
+View the top contending locks::
+
+  # grep : /proc/lock_stat | head
+			clockevents_lock:       2926159        2947636           0.15       46882.81  1784540466.34         605.41        3381345        3879161           0.00        2260.97    53178395.68          13.71
+		     tick_broadcast_lock:        346460         346717           0.18        2257.43    39364622.71         113.54        3642919        4242696           0.00        2263.79    49173646.60          11.59
+		  &mapping->i_mmap_mutex:        203896         203899           3.36      645530.05 31767507988.39      155800.21        3361776        8893984           0.17        2254.15    14110121.02           1.59
+			       &rq->lock:        135014         136909           0.18         606.09      842160.68           6.15        1540728       10436146           0.00         728.72    17606683.41           1.69
+	       &(&zone->lru_lock)->rlock:         93000          94934           0.16          59.18      188253.78           1.98        1199912        3809894           0.15         391.40     3559518.81           0.93
+			 tasklist_lock-W:         40667          41130           0.23        1189.42      428980.51          10.43         270278         510106           0.16         653.51     3939674.91           7.72
+			 tasklist_lock-R:         21298          21305           0.20        1310.05      215511.12          10.12         186204         241258           0.14        1162.33     1179779.23           4.89
+			      rcu_node_1:         47656          49022           0.16         635.41      193616.41           3.95         844888        1865423           0.00         764.26     1656226.96           0.89
+       &(&dentry->d_lockref.lock)->rlock:         39791          40179           0.15        1302.08       88851.96           2.21        2790851       12527025           0.10        1910.75     3379714.27           0.27
+			      rcu_node_0:         29203          30064           0.16         786.55     1555573.00          51.74          88963         244254           0.00         398.87      428872.51           1.76
+
+Clear the statistics::
+
+  # echo 0 > /proc/lock_stat