From 4d6923733f158e7f8f0695b43c30c22a59ec0a34 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Clark Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2014 11:19:26 -0400 Subject: ww-mutex: clarify help text for DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH We really don't want distro's enabling this in their kernels. Try and make that more clear. Signed-off-by: Rob Clark Acked-by: Maarten Lankhorst Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'lib') diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 07c28323f88f..1b233fc67466 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -892,6 +892,10 @@ config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. + Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so + it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel, + even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If + you are a distro, do not. config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" -- cgit From 0c38e1fe0fced6aa06dbf444f7203dd7f325e369 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Jones Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2014 15:18:35 -0700 Subject: lib: turn CONFIG_STACKTRACE into an actual option. I was puzzled why /proc/$$/stack had disappeared, until I figured out I had disabled the last debug option that did a 'select STACKTRACE'. This patch makes the option show up at config time, so it can be enabled without enabling any of the more heavyweight debug options. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 7 ++++++- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'lib') diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 1b233fc67466..a28590083622 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -1036,8 +1036,13 @@ config TRACE_IRQFLAGS either tracing or lock debugging. config STACKTRACE - bool + bool "Stack backtrace support" depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT + help + This option causes the kernel to create a /proc/pid/stack for + every process, showing its current stack trace. + It is also used by various kernel debugging features that require + stack trace generation. config DEBUG_KOBJECT bool "kobject debugging" -- cgit