[PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging
authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Mon, 3 Jul 2006 07:24:33 +0000 (00:24 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:27:01 +0000 (15:27 -0700)
commit9a11b49a805665e13a56aa067afaf81d43ec1514
treebf499956e3f67d1211d68ab1e2eb76645f453dfb
parentfb7e42413a098cc45b3adf858da290033af62bae
[PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging

Generic lock debugging:

 - generalized lock debugging framework. For example, a bug in one lock
   subsystem turns off debugging in all lock subsystems.

 - got rid of the caller address passing (__IP__/__IP_DECL__/etc.) from
   the mutex/rtmutex debugging code: it caused way too much prototype
   hackery, and lockdep will give the same information anyway.

 - ability to do silent tests

 - check lock freeing in vfree too.

 - more finegrained debugging options, to allow distributions to
   turn off more expensive debugging features.

There's no separate 'held mutexes' list anymore - but there's a 'held locks'
stack within lockdep, which unifies deadlock detection across all lock
classes.  (this is independent of the lockdep validation stuff - lockdep first
checks whether we are holding a lock already)

Here are the current debugging options:

CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES=y
CONFIG_DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC=y

which do:

 config DEBUG_MUTEXES
          bool "Mutex debugging, basic checks"

 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
         bool "Detect incorrect freeing of live mutexes"

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
25 files changed:
drivers/char/sysrq.c
include/asm-generic/mutex-null.h
include/linux/debug_locks.h [new file with mode: 0644]
include/linux/init_task.h
include/linux/mm.h
include/linux/mutex-debug.h
include/linux/mutex.h
include/linux/rtmutex.h
include/linux/sched.h
init/main.c
kernel/exit.c
kernel/fork.c
kernel/mutex-debug.c
kernel/mutex-debug.h
kernel/mutex.c
kernel/mutex.h
kernel/rtmutex-debug.c
kernel/rtmutex-debug.h
kernel/rtmutex.c
kernel/rtmutex.h
kernel/sched.c
lib/Makefile
lib/debug_locks.c [new file with mode: 0644]
lib/spinlock_debug.c
mm/vmalloc.c