Re: [patch] lockdep: show held locks when showing a stackdump

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Thu Nov 16 2006 - 09:02:48 EST



* Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> Subject: [patch] lockdep: show held locks when showing a stackdump
> From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx>
>
> lockdep can be used to print held locks when printing a backtrace.
> This can be useful when debugging things like 'scheduling while
> atomic' asserts.

on x86_64 this also needs the patch below - NULL means 'current'.

Ingo

Index: linux/kernel/lockdep.c
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/kernel/lockdep.c
+++ linux/kernel/lockdep.c
@@ -395,7 +395,11 @@ static void print_lock(struct held_lock

static void lockdep_print_held_locks(struct task_struct *curr)
{
- int i, depth = curr->lockdep_depth;
+ int i, depth;
+
+ if (!curr)
+ curr = current;
+ depth = curr->lockdep_depth;

if (!depth) {
printk("no locks held by %s/%d.\n", curr->comm, curr->pid);
-
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