[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/kernel/fork.c b/kernel/fork.c
index 9064bf9e131..1cd46a4fb0d 100644
--- a/kernel/fork.c
+++ b/kernel/fork.c
@@ -919,10 +919,6 @@ static inline void rt_mutex_init_task(struct task_struct *p)
 	spin_lock_init(&p->pi_lock);
 	plist_head_init(&p->pi_waiters, &p->pi_lock);
 	p->pi_blocked_on = NULL;
-# ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
-	spin_lock_init(&p->held_list_lock);
-	INIT_LIST_HEAD(&p->held_list_head);
-# endif
 #endif
 }