1 files changed, 11 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 91e338a3d069..16021b09c184 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -149,6 +149,17 @@ config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
           If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
           noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
 
+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