From 1b2439dbb703ae8d95a9ce7ece6b7800b80f41f0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Arjan van de Ven Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2008 15:29:38 -0700 Subject: debug: add notifier chain debugging during some development we suspected a case where we left something in a notifier chain that was from a module that was unloaded already... and that sort of thing is rather hard to track down. This patch adds a very simple sanity check (which isn't all that expensive) to make sure the notifier we're about to call is actually from either the kernel itself of from a still-loaded module, avoiding a hard-to-chase-down crash. Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 10 ++++++++++ 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+) (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug') diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 8b5a7d304a5f..342858fbabbc 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -536,6 +536,16 @@ config DEBUG_SG If unsure, say N. +config DEBUG_NOTIFIERS + bool "Debug notifier call chains" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + help + Enable this to turn on sanity checking for notifier call chains. + This is most useful for kernel developers to make sure that + modules properly unregister themselves from notifier chains. + This is a relatively cheap check but if you care about maximum + performance, say N. + config FRAME_POINTER bool "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && \ -- cgit v1.2.2