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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: [patch] lock debugging: fix DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON() & debug_locks_silent
Date: Sat, 16 Dec 2006 09:04:58 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061216080458.GC16116@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061216062633.GY21070@parisc-linux.org>


* Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> wrote:

> Moreover, do we want to get stack dumps while running the locking 
> testsuite in the first place?  From various comments, it looks like 
> it's supposed to be turned off, but it looks like the sense of 
> debug_locks_silent is inverted in the definition of 
> DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON:
> 
>         if (unlikely(c)) {                                              \
>                 if (debug_locks_silent || debug_locks_off())            \
>                         WARN_ON(1);                                     \
> 
> Surely that should be:
> 
> 		if (!debug_locks_silent && debug_locks_off())
> 			WARN_ON(1);

oops, indeed! Fix below.

	Ingo

------------->
Subject: [patch] lock debugging: fix DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON() & debug_locks_silent
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

Matthew Wilcox noticed that the debug_locks_silent use should be
inverted in DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(). This bug was causing spurious
stacktraces and incorrect failures in the locking self-test on the
parisc kernel.

Bug-found-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
---
 include/linux/debug_locks.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/include/linux/debug_locks.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/linux/debug_locks.h
+++ linux/include/linux/debug_locks.h
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ extern int debug_locks_off(void);
 	int __ret = 0;							\
 									\
 	if (unlikely(c)) {						\
-		if (debug_locks_silent || debug_locks_off())		\
+		if (!debug_locks_silent && debug_locks_off())		\
 			WARN_ON(1);					\
 		__ret = 1;						\
 	}								\

  reply	other threads:[~2006-12-16  8:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-12-16  6:26 Doubled stack dumps during locking testsuite Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-16  8:04 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2006-12-19  8:43   ` [patch] lock debugging: fix DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON() & debug_locks_silent Jarek Poplawski
2006-12-19  8:51     ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-19  9:05       ` Jarek Poplawski
2006-12-19  9:31     ` Ingo Molnar
2006-12-19  9:40       ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-12-19  9:44         ` Ingo Molnar

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