[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>

1 files changed, 45 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/debug_locks.c b/lib/debug_locks.c
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0ef01d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/debug_locks.c
@@ -0,0 +1,45 @@
+/*
+ * 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;
+}