locking/lockdep: Introduce CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE_FULL…

…STACK=y

Add a Kconfig knob that enables the lockdep "crossrelease_fullstack" boot parameter.

Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Byungchul Park <byungchul.park@lge.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: amir73il@gmail.com
Cc: axboe@kernel.dk
Cc: darrick.wong@oracle.com
Cc: david@fromorbit.com
Cc: hch@infradead.org
Cc: idryomov@gmail.com
Cc: johan@kernel.org
Cc: johannes.berg@intel.com
Cc: kernel-team@lge.com
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-xfs@vger.kernel.org
Cc: oleg@redhat.com
Cc: tj@kernel.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1508921765-15396-7-git-send-email-byungchul.park@lge.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

kernel/locking/lockdep.c

@@ -76,7 +76,11 @@ module_param(lock_stat, int, 0644);
 #define lock_stat 0
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_BOOTPARAM_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE_FULLSTACK
+static int crossrelease_fullstack = 1;
+#else
 static int crossrelease_fullstack;
+#endif
 static int __init allow_crossrelease_fullstack(char *str)
 {
 	crossrelease_fullstack = 1;

lib/Kconfig.debug

@@ -1179,6 +1179,21 @@ config LOCKDEP_COMPLETIONS
 	 A deadlock caused by wait_for_completion() and complete() can be
 	 detected by lockdep using crossrelease feature.
 
+config BOOTPARAM_LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE_FULLSTACK
+	bool "Enable the boot parameter, crossrelease_fullstack"
+	depends on LOCKDEP_CROSSRELEASE
+	default n
+	help
+	 The lockdep "cross-release" feature needs to record stack traces
+	 (of calling functions) for all acquisitions, for eventual later
+	 use during analysis. By default only a single caller is recorded,
+	 because the unwind operation can be very expensive with deeper
+	 stack chains.
+
+	 However a boot parameter, crossrelease_fullstack, was
+	 introduced since sometimes deeper traces are required for full
+	 analysis. This option turns on the boot parameter.
+
 config DEBUG_LOCKDEP
 	bool "Lock dependency engine debugging"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && LOCKDEP