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| author | Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com> | 2017-08-07 10:12:52 +0300 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> | 2017-08-10 13:29:07 +0300 |
| commit | b09be676e0ff25bd6d2e7637e26d349f9109ad75 (patch) | |
| tree | 8dc82ceaa001d29bb07a51f5c4814759b303e8e4 /lib | |
| parent | ce07a9415f266e181a0a33033a5f7138760240a4 (diff) | |
| download | linux-b09be676e0ff25bd6d2e7637e26d349f9109ad75.tar.xz | |
locking/lockdep: Implement the 'crossrelease' feature
Lockdep is a runtime locking correctness validator that detects and
reports a deadlock or its possibility by checking dependencies between
locks. It's useful since it does not report just an actual deadlock but
also the possibility of a deadlock that has not actually happened yet.
That enables problems to be fixed before they affect real systems.
However, this facility is only applicable to typical locks, such as
spinlocks and mutexes, which are normally released within the context in
which they were acquired. However, synchronization primitives like page
locks or completions, which are allowed to be released in any context,
also create dependencies and can cause a deadlock.
So lockdep should track these locks to do a better job. The 'crossrelease'
implementation makes these primitives also be tracked.
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: boqun.feng@gmail.com
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Cc: kirill@shutemov.name
Cc: npiggin@gmail.com
Cc: walken@google.com
Cc: willy@infradead.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1502089981-21272-6-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 98fe715522e8..c6038f23bb1a 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -1150,6 +1150,18 @@ config LOCK_STAT CONFIG_LOCK_STAT defines "contended" and "acquired" lock events. (CONFIG_LOCKDEP defines "acquire" and "release" events.) +config LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE + bool "Lock debugging: make lockdep work for crosslocks" + depends on PROVE_LOCKING + default n + help + This makes lockdep work for crosslock which is a lock allowed to + be released in a different context from the acquisition context. + Normally a lock must be released in the context acquiring the lock. + However, relexing this constraint helps synchronization primitives + such as page locks or completions can use the lock correctness + detector, lockdep. + config DEBUG_LOCKDEP bool "Lock dependency engine debugging" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP |