netdev - [PATCH 07/45] CPU hotplug: Expose the new debug config option

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Message-ID: <20130623133928.19094.8259.stgit@srivatsabhat.in.ibm.com>
Date:	Sun, 23 Jun 2013 19:09:31 +0530
From:	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
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	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
Subject: [PATCH 07/45] CPU hotplug: Expose the new debug config option

Now that we have all the pieces of the CPU hotplug debug infrastructure
in place, expose the feature by growing a new Kconfig option,
CONFIG_DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU.

Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paul.mckenney@...aro.org>
Cc: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@...il.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@...gle.com>
Signed-off-by: Srivatsa S. Bhat <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
---

 lib/Kconfig.debug |    9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 566cf2b..6be1e72 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -512,6 +512,15 @@ config DEBUG_PREEMPT
 	  if kernel code uses it in a preemption-unsafe way. Also, the kernel
 	  will detect preemption count underflows.
 
+config DEBUG_HOTPLUG_CPU
+	bool "Debug CPU hotplug"
+	depends on HOTPLUG_CPU
+	default n
+	help
+	  If you say Y here, the kernel will check all the accesses of
+	  cpu_online_mask from atomic contexts, and will print warnings if
+	  the task lacks appropriate synchronization with CPU hotplug.
+
 config DEBUG_RT_MUTEXES
 	bool "RT Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && RT_MUTEXES

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