Commit-ID:  91f30a17024ff0d8345e11228af33ee938b13426
Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/91f30a17024ff0d8345e11228af33ee938b13426
Author:     Chuansheng Liu <[email protected]>
AuthorDate: Wed, 4 Dec 2013 13:58:13 +0800
Committer:  Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
CommitDate: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 15:35:10 +0100

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 <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul E. McKenney <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
---
 kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c | 7 ++++++-
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c b/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c
index 7e3443f..faf6f5b 100644
--- a/kernel/locking/mutex-debug.c
+++ b/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);
 }
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