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mutexes: Give more informative mutex warning in the !lock->owner case

When mutex debugging is enabled and an imbalanced mutex_unlock()
is called, we get the following, slightly confusing warning:

  [  364.208284] DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->owner != current)

But in that case the warning is due to an imbalanced mutex_unlock() call,
and the lock->owner is NULL - so the message is misleading.

So improve the message by testing for this case specifically:

   DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!lock->owner)

Signed-off-by: Liu, Chuansheng <chuansheng.liu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1386136693.3650.48.camel@cliu38-desktop-build
[ Improved the changelog, changed the patch to use !lock->owner consistently. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Chuansheng Liu 11 years ago
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1 changed files with 6 additions and 1 deletions
  1. 6 1
      kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c

+ 6 - 1
kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c

@@ -75,7 +75,12 @@ void debug_mutex_unlock(struct mutex *lock)
 		return;
 
 	DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->magic != lock);
-	DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->owner != current);
+
+	if (!lock->owner)
+		DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!lock->owner);
+	else
+		DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(lock->owner != current);
+
 	DEBUG_LOCKS_WARN_ON(!lock->wait_list.prev && !lock->wait_list.next);
 	mutex_clear_owner(lock);
 }