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 ...@@ -892,6 +892,10 @@ config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks. 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 config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks" bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"
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