linux/kernel/locking
Chuansheng Liu 91f30a1702 mutexes: Give more informative mutex warning in the !lock->owner case
When mutex debugging is enabled and an imbalanced mutex_unlock()
is called, we get the following, slightly confusing warning:

  [  364.208284] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->owner != current)

But in that case the warning is due to an imbalanced mutex_unlock() call,
and the lock->owner is NULL - so the message is misleading.

So improve the message by testing for this case specifically:

   DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!lock->owner)

Signed-off-by: Liu, Chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386136693.3650.48.camel@cliu38-desktop-build
[ Improved the changelog, changed the patch to use !lock->owner consistently. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
2013-12-17 15:35:10 +01:00
..
lglock.c locking: Move the lglocks code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:24:20 +01:00
lockdep_internals.h locking: Move the lockdep code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 07:55:08 +01:00
lockdep_proc.c lockdep/proc: Fix lock-time avg computation 2013-11-11 12:41:34 +01:00
lockdep_states.h locking: Move the lockdep code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 07:55:08 +01:00
lockdep.c lockdep: Be nice about building from userspace 2013-11-27 11:55:20 +01:00
Makefile locking: Move the percpu-rwsem code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:24:22 +01:00
mutex-debug.c mutexes: Give more informative mutex warning in the !lock->owner case 2013-12-17 15:35:10 +01:00
mutex-debug.h
mutex.c locking/doc: Update references to kernel/mutex.c 2013-11-11 12:41:33 +01:00
mutex.h
percpu-rwsem.c locking: Move the percpu-rwsem code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:24:22 +01:00
rtmutex_common.h locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:23:59 +01:00
rtmutex-debug.c locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:23:59 +01:00
rtmutex-debug.h locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:23:59 +01:00
rtmutex-tester.c locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:23:59 +01:00
rtmutex.c locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:23:59 +01:00
rtmutex.h locking: Move the rtmutex code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:23:59 +01:00
rwsem-spinlock.c locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:24:18 +01:00
rwsem-xadd.c locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:24:18 +01:00
rwsem.c locking: Move the rwsem code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 09:24:18 +01:00
semaphore.c locking: Move the semaphore core to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 07:55:22 +01:00
spinlock_debug.c locking: Move the spinlock code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 07:55:21 +01:00
spinlock.c locking: Move the spinlock code to kernel/locking/ 2013-11-06 07:55:21 +01:00