There are quite a few of these, and we want to make sure that there is one-stop-shopping for lock debugging. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- linux-2.6.git-dave/lib/Kconfig.debug | 120 ++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-) diff -puN lib/Kconfig.debug~order-lock-debugging-options lib/Kconfig.debug --- linux-2.6.git/lib/Kconfig.debug~order-lock-debugging-options 2012-12-17 12:36:54.393387876 -0500 +++ linux-2.6.git-dave/lib/Kconfig.debug 2012-12-17 12:36:54.401387943 -0500 @@ -694,6 +694,8 @@ config DEBUG_PREEMPT if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel will detect preemption count underflows. +menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)" + config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES @@ -786,6 +788,66 @@ config PROVE_LOCKING For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt. +config LOCKDEP + bool + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT + select STACKTRACE + select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE + select KALLSYMS + select KALLSYMS_ALL + +config LOCK_STAT + bool "Lock usage statistics" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT + select LOCKDEP + select DEBUG_SPINLOCK + select DEBUG_MUTEXES + select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC + default n + help + This feature enables tracking lock contention points + + For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt + + This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", + subcommand of perf. + If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on + CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. + + CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. + (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) + +config DEBUG_LOCKDEP + bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP + help + If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do + additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price + of more runtime overhead. + +config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP + bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" + select PREEMPT_COUNT + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + help + If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very + noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is + held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled + sections, inside an interrupt, etc... + +config DEBUG_KERNEL_API_SELFTESTS + bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + help + Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during + bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs + are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable + lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) + The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, + mutexes and rwsems. + +endmenu # lock debugging + menu "RCU Debugging" config PROVE_RCU @@ -923,70 +985,12 @@ config RCU_TRACE endmenu # RCU Debugging -config LOCKDEP - bool - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT - select STACKTRACE - select FRAME_POINTER if !MIPS && !PPC && !ARM_UNWIND && !S390 && !MICROBLAZE - select KALLSYMS - select KALLSYMS_ALL - -config LOCK_STAT - bool "Lock usage statistics" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT - select LOCKDEP - select DEBUG_SPINLOCK - select DEBUG_MUTEXES - select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC - default n - help - This feature enables tracking lock contention points - - For more details, see Documentation/lockstat.txt - - This also enables lock events required by "perf lock", - subcommand of perf. - If you want to use "perf lock", you also need to turn on - CONFIG_EVENT_TRACING. - - CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. - (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) - -config DEBUG_LOCKDEP - bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP - help - If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do - additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price - of more runtime overhead. - config TRACE_IRQFLAGS bool help Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for either tracing or lock debugging. -config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP - bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking" - select PREEMPT_COUNT - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help - If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very - noisy if they are called inside atomic sections: when a spinlock is - held, inside an rcu read side critical section, inside preempt disabled - sections, inside an interrupt, etc... - -config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS - bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL - help - Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during - bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs - are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable - lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.) - The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks, - mutexes and rwsems. - config STACKTRACE bool depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT diff -puN MAINTAINERS~order-lock-debugging-options MAINTAINERS _ -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
