linux/lib/debug_locks.c
Ingo Molnar 9a11b49a80 [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>
2006-07-03 15:27:01 -07:00

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/*
* lib/debug_locks.c
*
* Generic place for common debugging facilities for various locks:
* spinlocks, rwlocks, mutexes and rwsems.
*
* Started by Ingo Molnar:
*
* Copyright (C) 2006 Red Hat, Inc., Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
*/
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/mutex.h>
#include <linux/module.h>
#include <linux/spinlock.h>
#include <linux/debug_locks.h>
/*
* We want to turn all lock-debugging facilities on/off at once,
* via a global flag. The reason is that once a single bug has been
* detected and reported, there might be cascade of followup bugs
* that would just muddy the log. So we report the first one and
* shut up after that.
*/
int debug_locks = 1;
/*
* The locking-testsuite uses <debug_locks_silent> to get a
* 'silent failure': nothing is printed to the console when
* a locking bug is detected.
*/
int debug_locks_silent;
/*
* Generic 'turn off all lock debugging' function:
*/
int debug_locks_off(void)
{
if (xchg(&debug_locks, 0)) {
if (!debug_locks_silent) {
console_verbose();
return 1;
}
}
return 0;
}