locking/rwsem: Add DEBUG_RWSEMS to look for lock/unlock mismatches
For a rwsem, locking can either be exclusive or shared. The corresponding exclusive or shared unlock must be used. Otherwise, the protected data structures may get corrupted or the lock may be in an inconsistent state. In order to detect such anomaly, a new configuration option DEBUG_RWSEMS is added which can be enabled to look for such mismatches and print warnings that that happens. Signed-off-by: Waiman Long <longman@redhat.com> Acked-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@stgolabs.net> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1522445280-7767-2-git-send-email-longman@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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@@ -1075,6 +1075,13 @@ config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
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even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
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you are a distro, do not.
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config DEBUG_RWSEMS
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bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks"
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
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help
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This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks and unlocks
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to be detected and reported.
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config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
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bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
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@@ -1097,6 +1104,7 @@ config PROVE_LOCKING
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select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
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select DEBUG_MUTEXES
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select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
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select DEBUG_RWSEMS if RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
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select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
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select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
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default n
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