[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, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/sched.h b/include/linux/sched.h
index aaf723308ed4..bdabeee10a78 100644
--- a/include/linux/sched.h
+++ b/include/linux/sched.h
@@ -865,10 +865,6 @@ struct task_struct {
         struct plist_head pi_waiters;
         /* Deadlock detection and priority inheritance handling */
         struct rt_mutex_waiter *pi_blocked_on;
-# ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
-        spinlock_t held_list_lock;
-        struct list_head held_list_head;
-# endif
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES