[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, 5 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/mutex-null.h b/include/asm-generic/mutex-null.h
index 5cf8b7ce0c45..254a126ede5c 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/mutex-null.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/mutex-null.h
@@ -10,15 +10,10 @@
 #ifndef _ASM_GENERIC_MUTEX_NULL_H
 #define _ASM_GENERIC_MUTEX_NULL_H
 
-/* extra parameter only needed for mutex debugging: */
-#ifndef __IP__
-# define __IP__
-#endif
-
-#define __mutex_fastpath_lock(count, fail_fn)         fail_fn(count __RET_IP__)
-#define __mutex_fastpath_lock_retval(count, fail_fn)  fail_fn(count __RET_IP__)
-#define __mutex_fastpath_unlock(count, fail_fn)       fail_fn(count __RET_IP__)
-#define __mutex_fastpath_trylock(count, fail_fn)      fail_fn(count)
-#define __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock()            1
+#define __mutex_fastpath_lock(count, fail_fn)           fail_fn(count)
+#define __mutex_fastpath_lock_retval(count, fail_fn)    fail_fn(count)
+#define __mutex_fastpath_unlock(count, fail_fn)         fail_fn(count)
+#define __mutex_fastpath_trylock(count, fail_fn)        fail_fn(count)
+#define __mutex_slowpath_needs_to_unlock()              1
 
 #endif