Commit 4d692373 authored by Rob Clark's avatar Rob Clark Committed by Dave Airlie

ww-mutex: clarify help text for DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH

We really don't want distro's enabling this in their kernels.  Try and
make that more clear.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Acked-by: default avatarMaarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
parent a8061227
......@@ -892,6 +892,10 @@ config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
you are a distro, do not.
config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
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