[PATCH] docs: irqflags-tracing: Fix the lockdep Kconfig option names
From: Karl Mehltretter
Date: Fri Sep 04 2026 - 22:38:05 EST
CONFIG_PROVE_SPIN_LOCKING, CONFIG_PROVE_RW_LOCKING,
CONFIG_PROVE_MUTEX_LOCKING and CONFIG_PROVE_RWSEM_LOCKING have never
existed in mainline. Lock proving was merged as the single
CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING, which has depended on CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT
from the start, so there is no reduced set of options without it.
Fixes: 55df314fbdb4 ("[PATCH] lockdep: irqtrace subsystem, docs")
Assisted-by: LLM
Signed-off-by: Karl Mehltretter <kmehltretter@xxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/core-api/irq/irqflags-tracing.rst | 8 ++------
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/core-api/irq/irqflags-tracing.rst b/Documentation/core-api/irq/irqflags-tracing.rst
index bdd208259fb3..a3c77046ae6b 100644
--- a/Documentation/core-api/irq/irqflags-tracing.rst
+++ b/Documentation/core-api/irq/irqflags-tracing.rst
@@ -9,12 +9,8 @@ that it gives interested subsystems an opportunity to be notified of
every hardirqs-off/hardirqs-on, softirqs-off/softirqs-on event that
happens in the kernel.
-CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT is needed for CONFIG_PROVE_SPIN_LOCKING
-and CONFIG_PROVE_RW_LOCKING to be offered by the generic lock debugging
-code. Otherwise only CONFIG_PROVE_MUTEX_LOCKING and
-CONFIG_PROVE_RWSEM_LOCKING will be offered on an architecture - these
-are locking APIs that are not used in IRQ context. (the one exception
-for rwsems is worked around)
+CONFIG_TRACE_IRQFLAGS_SUPPORT is needed for CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING to be
+offered by the generic lock debugging code.
Architecture support for this is certainly not in the "trivial"
category, because lots of lowlevel assembly code deal with irq-flags
--
2.53.0