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[PATCH] lockdep: better lock debugging

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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>
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Ingo Molnar
2006-07-03 00:24:33 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent fb7e42413a
commit 9a11b49a80
25 changed files with 264 additions and 566 deletions
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include/linux/mutex.h
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@@ -50,8 +50,6 @@ struct mutex {
struct list_head wait_list;
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
struct thread_info *owner;
struct list_head held_list;
unsigned long acquire_ip;
const char *name;
void *magic;
#endif
@@ -76,10 +74,6 @@ struct mutex_waiter {
# define __DEBUG_MUTEX_INITIALIZER(lockname)
# define mutex_init(mutex) __mutex_init(mutex, NULL)
# define mutex_destroy(mutex) do { } while (0)
# define mutex_debug_show_all_locks() do { } while (0)
# define mutex_debug_show_held_locks(p) do { } while (0)
# define mutex_debug_check_no_locks_held(task) do { } while (0)
# define mutex_debug_check_no_locks_freed(from, len) do { } while (0)
#endif
#define __MUTEX_INITIALIZER(lockname) \