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+/*
+ * Copyright (c) 2021, Brian Gianforcaro <bgianf@serenityos.org>
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: BSD-2-Clause
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#if LOCK_DEBUG
+#    include <AK/SourceLocation.h>
+#endif
+
+// Abstract SourceLocation away from the kernel's locking API to avoid a
+// significant amount of #ifdefs in Mutex / MutexLocker / etc.
+//
+// To do this we declare LockLocation to be a zero sized struct which will
+// get optimized out during normal compilation. When LOCK_DEBUG is enabled,
+// we forward the implementation to AK::SourceLocation and get rich debugging
+// information for every caller.
+
+namespace Kernel {
+
+#if LOCK_DEBUG
+using LockLocation = SourceLocation;
+#else
+struct LockLocation {
+    static constexpr LockLocation current() { return {}; }
+};
+#endif
+
+}