diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index 91e338a..16021b0 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -149,6 +149,17 @@
 	  If you say Y here, various routines which may sleep will become very
 	  noisy if they are called with a spinlock held.
 
+config DEBUG_LOCKING_API_SELFTESTS
+	bool "Locking API boot-time self-tests"
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
+	help
+	  Say Y here if you want the kernel to run a short self-test during
+	  bootup. The self-test checks whether common types of locking bugs
+	  are detected by debugging mechanisms or not. (if you disable
+	  lock debugging then those bugs wont be detected of course.)
+	  The following locking APIs are covered: spinlocks, rwlocks,
+	  mutexes and rwsems.
+
 config STACKTRACE
 	bool
 	depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT