From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects
Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:24:53 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803212215410.3781@apollo.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080321135513.8f1c2a69.randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
On Fri, 21 Mar 2008, Randy Dunlap wrote:
> > + If you say Y here, additional code will be inserted into the
> > + kernel to track the life time of various objects and validate
>
> lifetime
Fixed.
> > + help
> > + This enables checks whether a k/v free operation frees an area
>
> Please say "kfree/vfree" so that we (I, others) don't have to think
> "what the heck is a k/v free operation?".
Ooops. Missed that one. Fixed it in the docs already.
> > +/*
> > + * We run out of memory. That means we probably have tons of objects
>
> ran
Sigh. This is one of the words which hunt me since school.
> > +/**
> > + * debug_object_init_on_stack - debug checks when an object on stack is
> > + * initialized
>
> Unfortunately the first line of kernel-doc notation ("short description")
> is limited to one line. Even if it exceeds 80 columns. :(
Fixed
Thanks,
tglx
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-03-21 21:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-03-21 20:26 [patch 0/5] debugobject infrastructure V3 Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-21 20:26 ` [patch 1/5] slab: add a flag to prevent debug_free checks on a kmem_cache Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-21 20:26 ` [patch 2/5] infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-21 20:55 ` Randy Dunlap
2008-03-21 21:24 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2008-03-24 20:04 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-25 8:19 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-26 23:23 ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-21 20:26 ` [patch 3/5] debugobjects: add documentation Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-21 20:26 ` [patch 4/5] debugobjects: add timer specific object debugging code Thomas Gleixner
2008-04-26 16:28 ` Andrew Morton
2008-03-21 20:26 ` [patch 5/5] add hrtimer specific debugobjects code Thomas Gleixner
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