From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761316AbYCUVZd (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:25:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757372AbYCUVZY (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:25:24 -0400 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:38682 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757343AbYCUVZY (ORCPT ); Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:25:24 -0400 Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2008 22:24:53 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Randy Dunlap cc: LKML , Andrew Morton , Ingo Molnar , Greg KH Subject: Re: [patch 2/5] infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects In-Reply-To: <20080321135513.8f1c2a69.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Message-ID: References: <20080321200300.310393657@linutronix.de> <20080321200321.650649403@linutronix.de> <20080321135513.8f1c2a69.randy.dunlap@oracle.com> User-Agent: Alpine 1.00 (LFD 882 2007-12-20) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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