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diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 16c2e98b763..e5889b1a33f 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ config RT_MUTEX_TESTER
This option enables a rt-mutex tester.
config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
- bool "Spinlock debugging"
+ bool "Spinlock and rw-lock debugging: basic checks"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
Say Y here and build SMP to catch missing spinlock initialization
@@ -142,8 +142,102 @@ config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
best used in conjunction with the NMI watchdog so that spinlock
deadlocks are also debuggable.
+config DEBUG_MUTEXES
+ bool "Mutex debugging: basic checks"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ This feature allows mutex semantics violations to be detected and
+ reported.
+
+config DEBUG_RWSEMS
+ bool "RW-sem debugging: basic checks"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+ help
+ This feature allows read-write semaphore semantics violations to
+ be detected and reported.
+
+config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
+ bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
+ depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
+ select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
+ select DEBUG_MUTEXES
+ select DEBUG_RWSEMS
+ select LOCKDEP
+ help
+ This feature will check whether any held lock (spinlock, rwlock,
+ mutex or rwsem) is incorrectly freed by the kernel, via any of the
+ memory-freeing routines (kfree(), kmem_cache_free(), free_pages(),
+ vfree(), etc.), whether a live lock is incorrectly reinitialized via
+ spin_lock_init()/mutex_init()/etc., or whether there is any lock
+ held during task exit.
+
+config PROVE_LOCKING
+ bool "Lock debugging: prove locking correctness"
+ depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
+ select LOCKDEP
+ select DEBUG_SPINLOCK
+ select DEBUG_MUTEXES
+ select DEBUG_RWSEMS
+ select DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
+ default n
+ help
+ This feature enables the kernel to prove that all locking
+ that occurs in the kernel runtime is mathematically
+ correct: that under no circumstance could an arbitrary (and
+ not yet triggered) combination of observed locking
+ sequences (on an arbitrary number of CPUs, running an
+ arbitrary number of tasks and interrupt contexts) cause a
+ deadlock.
+
+ In short, this feature enables the kernel to report locking
+ related deadlocks before they actually occur.
+
+ The proof does not depend on how hard and complex a
+ deadlock scenario would be to trigger: how many
+ participant CPUs, tasks and irq-contexts would be needed
+ for it to trigger. The proof also does not depend on
+ timing: if a race and a resulting deadlock is possible
+ theoretically (no matter how unlikely the race scenario
+ is), it will be proven so and will immediately be
+ reported by the kernel (once the event is observed that
+ makes the deadlock theoretically possible).
+
+ If a deadlock is impossible (i.e. the locking rules, as
+ observed by the kernel, are mathematically correct), the
+ kernel reports nothing.
+
+ NOTE: this feature can also be enabled for rwlocks, mutexes
+ and rwsems - in which case all dependencies between these
+ different locking variants are observed and mapped too, and
+ the proof of observed correctness is also maintained for an
+ arbitrary combination of these separate locking variants.
+
+ For more details, see Documentation/lockdep-design.txt.
+
+config LOCKDEP
+ bool
+ depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT && LOCKDEP_SUPPORT
+ select STACKTRACE
+ select FRAME_POINTER
+ select KALLSYMS
+ select KALLSYMS_ALL
+
+config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
+ bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
+ depends on LOCKDEP
+ help
+ If you say Y here, the lock dependency engine will do
+ additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
+ of more runtime overhead.
+
+config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
+ bool
+ default y
+ depends on TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
+ depends on PROVE_LOCKING
+
config DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP
- bool "Sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
+ bool "Spinlock debugging: sleep-inside-spinlock checking"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
help
If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very