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| author | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2011-06-08 19:31:56 +0200 |
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| committer | Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> | 2011-06-23 00:44:38 +0200 |
| commit | d902db1eb60387040fe541573083e47469db50ac (patch) | |
| tree | ea50ea75522a9a17af04d578a36a9e585e78464b /Documentation/development-process | |
| parent | e8f7c70f44f75c827c04239b0ae5f0068b65b76e (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>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/development-process')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/development-process/4.Coding | 2 |
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding b/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding index f3f1a469443c..83f5f5b365a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding +++ b/Documentation/development-process/4.Coding @@ -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 |