Bug 1082816

Summary: [RFE] build user-space lockdep library and wrapper
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Petr Spacek <pspacek>
Component: kernelAssignee: Kernel Maintainer List <kernel-maint>
Status: CLOSED DUPLICATE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: 20CC: gansalmon, itamar, jonathan, kernel-maint, madhu.chinakonda, mchehab
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Description Petr Spacek 2014-03-31 21:13:58 UTC
Description of problem:
Please add "lockdep" to kernel-tools package or even to a new stand-alone package.

Lockdep is an awesome tool for lock debugging. Kernel 3.14 made it available for userspace:
http://lwn.net/Articles/591128

Some background info about lockdep:
http://lwn.net/Articles/536363/
https://lwn.net/Articles/550889/

Lockdep is in kernel source tree:
http://tomoyo.sourceforge.jp/cgi-bin/lxr/source/tools/lib/lockdep/

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
3.14

Thank you very much!

Comment 1 Josh Boyer 2014-03-31 21:25:53 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 1082763 ***