[PATCH] Kconfig.debug: Set DEBUG_MUTEX to off by default

[Tim Chen]

Hi,

DEBUG_MUTEX flag is on by default in current kernel configuration.
 
During performance testing, we saw mutex debug functions like
mutex_debug_check_no_locks_freed (called by kfree()) is expensive as it
goes through a global list of memory areas with mutex lock and do the
checking.  For benchmarks such as Volanomark and Hackbench, we have seen
more than 40% drop in performance on some platforms.  We suggest to set
DEBUG_MUTEX off by default.  Or at least do that later when we feel that
the mutex changes in the current code have stabilized.

Tim Chen

Signed-off-by: Tim Chen <tim.c.chen@xxxxxxxxx>

diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -101,7 +101,7 @@ config DEBUG_PREEMPT
 
 config DEBUG_MUTEXES
 	bool "Mutex debugging, deadlock detection"
-	default y
+	default n
 	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
 	help
 	 This allows mutex semantics violations and mutex related deadlocks


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