The patch titled
lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, docs
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lockdep-irqtrace-subsystem-docs.patch
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Subject: lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, docs
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
add Documentation/irqflags-tracing.txt.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/irqflags-tracing.txt | 57 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
1 file changed, 57 insertions(+)
diff -puN /dev/null Documentation/irqflags-tracing.txt
--- /dev/null
+++ a/Documentation/irqflags-tracing.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,57 @@
+IRQ-flags state tracing
+
+started by Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
+
+the "irq-flags tracing" feature "traces" hardirq and softirq state, in
+that it gives interested subsystems an opportunity to be notified of
+every hardirqs-off/hardirqs-on, softirqs-off/softirqs-on event that
+happens in the kernel.
+
+CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT is needed for CONFIG_PROVE_SPIN_LOCKING
+and CONFIG_PROVE_RW_LOCKING to be offered by the generic lock debugging
+code. Otherwise only CONFIG_PROVE_MUTEX_LOCKING and
+CONFIG_PROVE_RWSEM_LOCKING will be offered on an architecture - these
+are locking APIs that are not used in IRQ context. (the one exception
+for rwsems is worked around)
+
+architecture support for this is certainly not in the "trivial"
+category, because lots of lowlevel assembly code deal with irq-flags
+state changes. But an architecture can be irq-flags-tracing enabled in a
+rather straightforward and risk-free manner.
+
+Architectures that want to support this need to do a couple of
+code-organizational changes first:
+
+- move their irq-flags manipulation code from their asm/system.h header
+ to asm/irqflags.h
+
+- rename local_irq_disable()/etc to raw_local_irq_disable()/etc. so that
+ the linux/irqflags.h code can inject callbacks and can construct the
+ real local_irq_disable()/etc APIs.
+
+- add and enable TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT in their arch level Kconfig file
+
+and then a couple of functional changes are needed as well to implement
+irq-flags-tracing support:
+
+- in lowlevel entry code add (build-conditional) calls to the
+ trace_hardirqs_off()/trace_hardirqs_on() functions. The lock validator
+ closely guards whether the 'real' irq-flags matches the 'virtual'
+ irq-flags state, and complains loudly (and turns itself off) if the
+ two do not match. Usually most of the time for arch support for
+ irq-flags-tracing is spent in this state: look at the lockdep
+ complaint, try to figure out the assembly code we did not cover yet,
+ fix and repeat. Once the system has booted up and works without a
+ lockdep complaint in the irq-flags-tracing functions arch support is
+ complete.
+- if the architecture has non-maskable interrupts then those need to be
+ excluded from the irq-tracing [and lock validation] mechanism via
+ lockdep_off()/lockdep_on().
+
+in general there is no risk from having an incomplete irq-flags-tracing
+implementation in an architecture: lockdep will detect that and will
+turn itself off. I.e. the lock validator will still be reliable. There
+should be no crashes due to irq-tracing bugs. (except if the assembly
+changes break other code by modifying conditions or registers that
+shouldnt be)
+
_
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origin.patch
define-__raw_get_cpu_var-and-use-it.patch
ide-cd-end-of-media-error-fix.patch
lock-validator-introduce-warn_on_oncecond.patch
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epoll-use-unlocked-wqueue-operations.patch
pacct-none-delayed-process-accounting-accumulation.patch
disable-debugging-version-of-write_lock.patch
fix-drivers-mfd-ucb1x00-corec-irq-probing-bug.patch
cifs-remove-f_ownerlock-use.patch
lock-validator-fix-ns83820c-irq-flags-bug.patch
revert-gregkh-pci-pci-test-that-drivers-properly-call-pci_set_master.patch
x86-re-enable-generic-numa.patch
i386-fix-softirq-accounting-with-4k-stacks.patch
vdso-randomize-the-i386-vdso-by-moving-it-into-a-vma.patch
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vdso-randomize-the-i386-vdso-by-moving-it-into-a-vma-vs-x86_64-mm-reliable-stack-trace-support-i386.patch
vdso-randomize-the-i386-vdso-by-moving-it-into-a-vma-vs-x86_64-mm-reliable-stack-trace-support-i386-2.patch
vdso-randomize-the-i386-vdso-by-moving-it-into-a-vma-vs-x86_64-mm-reliable-stack-trace-support-i386-2-revert-maxmem-change.patch
work-around-ppc64-bootup-bug-by-making-mutex-debugging-save-restore-irqs.patch
kernel-kernel-cpuc-to-mutexes.patch
spin-rwlock-init-cleanups.patch
time-clocksource-infrastructure.patch
sched-fix-smt-nice-lock-contention-and-optimization.patch
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genirq-add-irq-wake-power-management-support.patch
genirq-add-sa_trigger-support.patch
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genirq-more-verbose-debugging-on-unexpected-irq-vectors.patch
genirq-ia64-build-fix.patch
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lockdep-irqtrace-cleanup-of-include-asm-i386-irqflagsh.patch
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lockdep-prove-rwsem-locking-correctness.patch
lockdep-prove-spinlock-rwlock-locking-correctness.patch
lockdep-prove-mutex-locking-correctness.patch
lockdep-kconfig.patch
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lockdep-x86_64-early-init.patch
lockdep-x86-smp-alternatives-workaround.patch
lockdep-do-not-recurse-in-printk.patch
lockdep-fix-rt_hash_lock_sz.patch
lockdep-s390-turn-validator-off-in-machine-check-handler.patch
lockdep-enable-on-i386.patch
lockdep-enable-on-x86_64.patch
lockdep-enable-on-s390.patch
lockdep-annotate-direct-io.patch
lockdep-annotate-serial.patch
lockdep-annotate-dcache.patch
lockdep-annotate-i_mutex.patch
lockdep-annotate-futex.patch
lockdep-annotate-genirq.patch
lockdep-annotate-waitqueues.patch
lockdep-annotate-mm.patch
lockdep-annotate-serio.patch
lockdep-annotate-skb_queue_head_init.patch
lockdep-annotate-timer-base-locks.patch
lockdep-annotate-scheduler-runqueue-locks.patch
lockdep-annotate-hrtimer-base-locks.patch
lockdep-annotate-sock_lock_init.patch
lockdep-annotate-af_unix-locking.patch
lockdep-annotate-bh_lock_sock.patch
lockdep-annotate-ieee1394-skb-queue-head-locking.patch
lockdep-annotate-mmap_sem.patch
lockdep-annotate-sunrpc-code.patch
lockdep-annotate-ntfs-locking-rules.patch
lockdep-annotate-the-quota-code.patch
lockdep-annotate-usbfs.patch
lockdep-annotate-sound-core-seq-seq_portsc.patch
lockdep-annotate-sound-core-seq-seq_devicec.patch
lockdep-annotate-8390c-disable_irq.patch
lockdep-annotate-3c59xc-disable_irq.patch
lockdep-annotate-forcedethc-disable_irq.patch
lockdep-annotate-enable_in_hardirq.patch
lockdep-annotate-on-stack-completions.patch
lockdep-annotate-qeth-driver.patch
lockdep-annotate-s_lock.patch
lockdep-annotate-sb-s_umount.patch
lockdep-annotate-slab-code.patch
lockdep-annotate-blkdev-nesting.patch
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