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authorFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2011-06-08 19:31:56 +0200
committerFrederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>2011-06-23 00:44:38 +0200
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treeea50ea75522a9a17af04d578a36a9e585e78464b /Documentation/development-process
parente8f7c70f44f75c827c04239b0ae5f0068b65b76e (diff)
sched: Generalize sleep inside spinlock detection
The sleeping inside spinlock detection is actually used for more general sleeping inside atomic sections debugging: preemption disabled, rcu read side critical sections, interrupts, interrupt disabled, etc... Change the name of the config and its help section to reflect its more general role. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Acked-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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@@ -244,7 +244,7 @@ testing purposes. In particular, you should turn on:
- DEBUG_SLAB can find a variety of memory allocation and use errors; it
should be used on most development kernels.
- - DEBUG_SPINLOCK, DEBUG_SPINLOCK_SLEEP, and DEBUG_MUTEXES will find a
+ - DEBUG_SPINLOCK, DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP, and DEBUG_MUTEXES will find a
number of common locking errors.
There are quite a few other debugging options, some of which will be