kernel-ark/include
Mathieu Desnoyers a5d8e467f8 Debugobjects transition check
Implement a basic state machine checker in the debugobjects.

This state machine checker detects races and inconsistencies within the "active"
life of a debugobject. The checker only keeps track of the current state; all
the state machine logic is kept at the object instance level.

The checker works by adding a supplementary "unsigned int astate" field to the
debug_obj structure. It keeps track of the current "active state" of the object.

The only constraints that are imposed on the states by the debugobjects system
is that:

- activation of an object sets the current active state to 0,
- deactivation of an object expects the current active state to be 0.

For the rest of the states, the state mapping is determined by the specific
object instance. Therefore, the logic keeping track of the state machine is
within the specialized instance, without any need to know about it at the
debugobject level.

The current object active state is changed by calling:

debug_object_active_state(addr, descr, expect, next)

where "expect" is the expected state and "next" is the next state to move to if
the expected state is found. A warning is generated if the expected is not
found.

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
CC: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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CC: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2010-05-10 16:08:01 -07:00
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acpi acpi: Support IBM SMBus CMI devices 2010-03-24 14:38:37 +01:00
asm-generic dma-mapping: pci: move pci_set_dma_mask and pci_set_consistent_dma_mask to pci-dma-compat.h 2010-03-12 15:52:42 -08:00
crypto
drm Merge branch 'drm-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 2010-05-07 14:02:01 -07:00
keys
linux Debugobjects transition check 2010-05-10 16:08:01 -07:00
math-emu
media V4L/DVB: saa7146: fix regression of the av7110/budget-av driver 2010-05-06 19:20:50 -03:00
mtd
net net: fix compile error due to double return type in SOCK_DEBUG 2010-05-02 13:42:39 -07:00
pcmcia pcmcia: pcmcia_dev_present bugfix 2010-04-21 08:09:17 +02:00
rdma Merge branch 'misc' into for-next 2010-03-01 23:52:31 -08:00
rxrpc
scsi include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
sound Merge branch 'fix/asoc' into for-linus 2010-04-07 09:54:41 +02:00
trace Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block 2010-04-09 11:50:29 -07:00
video broadsheetfb: support storing waveform 2010-03-12 15:52:34 -08:00
xen include cleanup: Update gfp.h and slab.h includes to prepare for breaking implicit slab.h inclusion from percpu.h 2010-03-30 22:02:32 +09:00
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