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Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2008 17:03:17 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
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Subject: Re: [2/2] vmallocinfo: Add caller information
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On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> * Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
> 
> > Add caller information so that /proc/vmallocinfo shows where the 
> > allocation request for a slice of vmalloc memory originated.
> 
> please use one simple save_stack_trace() instead of polluting a dozen 
> architectures with:

save_stack_trace() depends on CONFIG_STACKTRACE which is only available 
when debugging is compiled it. I was more thinking about this as a 
generally available feature.