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authorDave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>2013-07-01 13:04:47 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2013-07-04 11:25:39 -0700
commit9eade16b4151ec35a9e03bbc7cc890e640a536c1 (patch)
tree253dc89cf1dba37e4e941cfbeaf1d967d8002600 /lib/Kconfig.debug
parent6dfc06651b3d29aa07ed99b8075e5d324f7a953a (diff)
downloadlinux-9eade16b4151ec35a9e03bbc7cc890e640a536c1.tar.gz
group locking debugging options
Original posting:

	http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20121214184208.D9E5804D@kernel.stglabs.ibm.com

There are quite a few of these, and we want to make sure that
there is one-stop-shopping for lock debugging.

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
-rw-r--r--lib/Kconfig.debug16
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 70dfda31c8aa..c0d41dfadc2d 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -703,6 +703,8 @@ config DEBUG_PREEMPT
 	  if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
 	  will detect preemption count underflows.
 
+menu "Lock Debugging (spinlocks, mutexes, etc...)"
+
 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
 	bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES
@@ -832,12 +834,6 @@ config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
 	  additional runtime checks to debug itself, at the price
 	  of more runtime overhead.
 
-config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
-	bool
-	help
-	  Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
-	  either tracing or lock debugging.
-
 config DEBUG_ATOMIC_SLEEP
 	bool "Sleep inside atomic section checking"
 	select PREEMPT_COUNT
@@ -859,6 +855,14 @@ config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
 	  The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
 	  mutexes and rwsems.
 
+endmenu # lock debugging
+
+config TRACE_IRQFLAGS
+	bool
+	help
+	  Enables hooks to interrupt enabling and disabling for
+	  either tracing or lock debugging.
+
 config STACKTRACE
 	bool
 	depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT