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>
This commit is contained in:
Waiman Long
2018-03-30 17:27:58 -04:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 169310f71f
commit 5149cbac42
3 changed files with 19 additions and 1 deletions

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@@ -1075,6 +1075,13 @@ config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
you are a distro, do not.
config DEBUG_RWSEMS
bool "RW Semaphore debugging: basic checks"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
help
This debugging feature allows mismatched rw semaphore locks and unlocks
to be detected and reported.
config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
@@ -1097,6 +1104,7 @@ config PROVE_LOCKING
select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
select DEBUG_MUTEXES
select DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES if RT_MUTEXES
select DEBUG_RWSEMS if RWSEM_SPIN_ON_OWNER
select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
select TRACE_IRQFLAGS
default n