Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Jun 2004 21:24:30 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] Spinlock-timeout |
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On Thu, 2004-06-10 13:44:52 -0500, Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com> wrote in message <1086893091.3476.37.camel@dyn95394175.austin.ibm.com>: > On Sat, 2004-06-05 at 15:51, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > > On Sat, 2004-06-05 15:31:26 -0500, Jake Moilanen <moilanen@austin.ibm.com> > > wrote in message <1086467486.20906.59.camel@dhcp-client215.upt.austin.ibm.com>: > > > Here's a patch that will BUG() when a spinlock is held for longer then X > > > seconds. It is useful for catching deadlocks since not all archs have a > > > NMI watchdog. > > I like the idea. However, I don't like touching all arch's Kconfig > > files. I think it's better to either put this into ./lib/Kconfig (well, > > doesn't really fit there), ot (even better:) put it into the Debug > > Kconfig file. > > I think you're right that lib/Kconfig would not be the right place, but > I don't think there is a debug Kconfig. I tried keeping the Kconfig
Not yet:) Somebody is working towards getting all the different debug options into a central Kconfig file. This was on LKML some four weeks ago...
> additions w/ CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK. The other option is to make a debug > Kconfig, but every arch seems pretty different in what they have for > their debug section.
As I said, it's been worked on:)
MfG, JBG
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