[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, 1 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
index 75179529e399..990957e0929f 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm.h
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <linux/prio_tree.h>
 #include <linux/fs.h>
 #include <linux/mutex.h>
+#include <linux/debug_locks.h>
 
 struct mempolicy;
 struct anon_vma;
@@ -1034,13 +1035,6 @@ static inline void vm_stat_account(struct mm_struct *mm,
 }
 #endif /* CONFIG_PROC_FS */
 
-static inline void
-debug_check_no_locks_freed(const void *from, unsigned long len)
-{
-        mutex_debug_check_no_locks_freed(from, len);
-        rt_mutex_debug_check_no_locks_freed(from, len);
-}
-
 #ifndef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 static inline void
 kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable)