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| author | Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> | 2010-10-26 14:23:05 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-10-26 16:52:18 -0700 |
| commit | e2852ae825dba5ebc159788720baec1a28a57125 (patch) | |
| tree | 9d7ed7731505ca02a0f35e8003ebe1cceefe7ecb /lib/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | 066a9be6c0124edc9527088231f03c6236be375d (diff) | |
| download | lwn-e2852ae825dba5ebc159788720baec1a28a57125.tar.gz lwn-e2852ae825dba5ebc159788720baec1a28a57125.zip | |
percpu_counter: add debugobj support
All percpu counters are linked to a global list on initialization and
removed from it on destruction. The list is walked during CPU up/down.
If a percpu counter is freed without being properly destroyed, the system
will oops only on the next CPU up/down making it pretty nasty to track
down. This patch adds debugobj support for percpu counters so that such
problems can be found easily.
As percpu counters don't make sense on stack and can't be statically
initialized, debugobj support is pretty simple. It's initialized and
activated on counter initialization, and deactivatd and destroyed on
counter destruction. With this patch applied, the bug fixed by commit
602586a83b719df0fbd94196a1359ed35aeb2df3 (shmem: put_super must
percpu_counter_destroy) triggers the following warning on tmpfs unmount
and the system won't oops on the next cpu up/down operation.
------------[ cut here ]------------
WARNING: at lib/debugobjects.c:259 debug_print_object+0x5c/0x70()
Hardware name: Bochs
ODEBUG: free active (active state 0) object type: percpu_counter
Modules linked in:
Pid: 3999, comm: umount Not tainted 2.6.36-rc2-work+ #5
Call Trace:
[<ffffffff81083f7f>] warn_slowpath_common+0x7f/0xc0
[<ffffffff81084076>] warn_slowpath_fmt+0x46/0x50
[<ffffffff813b45cc>] debug_print_object+0x5c/0x70
[<ffffffff813b50e5>] debug_check_no_obj_freed+0x125/0x210
[<ffffffff811577d3>] kfree+0xb3/0x2f0
[<ffffffff81132edd>] shmem_put_super+0x1d/0x30
[<ffffffff81162e96>] generic_shutdown_super+0x56/0xe0
[<ffffffff81162f86>] kill_anon_super+0x16/0x60
[<ffffffff81162ff7>] kill_litter_super+0x27/0x30
[<ffffffff81163295>] deactivate_locked_super+0x45/0x60
[<ffffffff81163cfa>] deactivate_super+0x4a/0x70
[<ffffffff8117d446>] mntput_no_expire+0x86/0xe0
[<ffffffff8117df7f>] sys_umount+0x6f/0x360
[<ffffffff8103f01b>] system_call_fastpath+0x16/0x1b
---[ end trace cce2a341ba3611a7 ]---
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglxlinutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 69a32664c289..0d5c762532a5 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -317,6 +317,14 @@ config DEBUG_OBJECTS_RCU_HEAD help Enable this to turn on debugging of RCU list heads (call_rcu() usage). +config DEBUG_OBJECTS_PERCPU_COUNTER + bool "Debug percpu counter objects" + depends on DEBUG_OBJECTS + help + If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the + percpu counter routines to track the life time of percpu counter + objects and validate the percpu counter operations. + config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT int "debug_objects bootup default value (0-1)" range 0 1 |