Re: [patch 10/21] mutex subsystem, debugging code

From: Matt Helsley
Date: Thu Jan 05 2006 - 16:51:11 EST


On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 16:38 +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> mutex implementation - add debugging code.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> ----
>
> include/linux/mutex-debug.h | 21 +
> include/linux/sched.h | 5
> kernel/Makefile | 1
> kernel/fork.c | 4
> kernel/mutex-debug.c | 464 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> kernel/mutex-debug.h | 134 ++++++++++++
> lib/Kconfig.debug | 8
> 7 files changed, 637 insertions(+)
>
> Index: linux/include/linux/mutex-debug.h
> ===================================================================
> --- /dev/null
> +++ linux/include/linux/mutex-debug.h
> @@ -0,0 +1,21 @@
> +#ifndef __LINUX_MUTEX_DEBUG_H
> +#define __LINUX_MUTEX_DEBUG_H
> +
> +/*
> + * Mutexes - debugging helpers:
> + */
> +
> +#define __DEBUG_MUTEX_INITIALIZER(lockname) \
> + , .held_list = LIST_HEAD_INIT(lockname.held_list), \
> + .name = #lockname , .magic = &lockname
> +
> +#define mutex_init(sem) __mutex_init(sem, __FUNCTION__)
> +
> +extern void FASTCALL(mutex_destroy(struct mutex *lock));
> +
> +extern void mutex_debug_show_all_locks(void);
> +extern void mutex_debug_show_held_locks(struct task_struct *filter);
> +extern void mutex_debug_check_no_locks_held(struct task_struct *task);
> +extern void mutex_debug_check_no_locks_freed(const void *from, const void *to);
> +
> +#endif
> Index: linux/include/linux/sched.h
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/include/linux/sched.h
> +++ linux/include/linux/sched.h
> @@ -820,6 +820,11 @@ struct task_struct {
> /* Protection of proc_dentry: nesting proc_lock, dcache_lock, write_lock_irq(&tasklist_lock); */
> spinlock_t proc_lock;
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
> + /* mutex deadlock detection */
> + struct mutex_waiter *blocked_on;
> +#endif
> +
> /* journalling filesystem info */
> void *journal_info;
>
> Index: linux/kernel/Makefile
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/kernel/Makefile
> +++ linux/kernel/Makefile
> @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ obj-y = sched.o fork.o exec_domain.o
> rcupdate.o intermodule.o extable.o params.o posix-timers.o \
> kthread.o wait.o kfifo.o sys_ni.o posix-cpu-timers.o mutex.o
>
> +obj-$(CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES) += mutex-debug.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_FUTEX) += futex.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_GENERIC_ISA_DMA) += dma.o
> obj-$(CONFIG_SMP) += cpu.o spinlock.o
> Index: linux/kernel/fork.c
> ===================================================================
> --- linux.orig/kernel/fork.c
> +++ linux/kernel/fork.c
> @@ -973,6 +973,10 @@ static task_t *copy_process(unsigned lon
> }
> #endif
>
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MUTEXES
> + p->blocked_on = NULL; /* not blocked yet */
> +#endif
> +
> p->tgid = p->pid;
> if (clone_flags & CLONE_THREAD)
> p->tgid = current->tgid;

Should there be a corresponding initialization of init's blocked_on
field in include/linux/init_task.h?

<snip>

Cheers,
-Matt Helsley

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