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ww-mutex: clarify help text for DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH 

We really don't want distro's enabling this in their kernels.  Try and
make that more clear.

Signed-off-by: Rob Clark <robdclark@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Maarten Lankhorst <maarten.lankhorst@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
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Rob Clark 2014-08-27 11:19:26 -04:00 committed by Dave Airlie
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@ -892,6 +892,10 @@ config DEBUG_WW_MUTEX_SLOWPATH
the full mutex checks enabled with (CONFIG_PROVE_LOCKING) this
will test all possible w/w mutex interface abuse with the
exception of simply not acquiring all the required locks.
Note that this feature can introduce significant overhead, so
it really should not be enabled in a production or distro kernel,
even a debug kernel. If you are a driver writer, enable it. If
you are a distro, do not.
config DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC
bool "Lock debugging: detect incorrect freeing of live locks"