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authorArjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>2008-08-15 15:29:38 -0700
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-09-10 09:08:50 +0200
commit1b2439dbb703ae8d95a9ce7ece6b7800b80f41f0 (patch)
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debug: add notifier chain debugging
during some development we suspected a case where we left something in a notifier chain that was from a module that was unloaded already... and that sort of thing is rather hard to track down. This patch adds a very simple sanity check (which isn't all that expensive) to make sure the notifier we're about to call is actually from either the kernel itself of from a still-loaded module, avoiding a hard-to-chase-down crash. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug10
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 8b5a7d3..342858f 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -536,6 +536,16 @@ config DEBUG_SG
If unsure, say N.
+config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS
+ bool "Debug notifier call chains"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains.
+ This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that
+ modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains.
+ This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum
+ performance, say N.
+
config FRAME_POINTER
bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \
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