From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 repost] debugobjects: print more data
Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:05:17 +0100 (CET) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1103081004250.2787@localhost6.localdomain6> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110307085809.GA9334@redhat.com>
On Mon, 7 Mar 2011, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> On complex subsystems like mac80211, structures may include many timers
> and works. In such case, based only on call trace and object type is
> hard to conclude where bug could possibly be.
>
> Patch extend debug object descriptor to additional debug hint function.
> If defined, it return address, which have associated kernel symbol (i.e.
> hrtimer->function pointer). We print that symbol when bug is detected,
> to identify the object.
>
> Patch contains debug hint methods for timer_list, work_struct
> and hrtimer.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
> ---
> Cc Andrew, perhaps this could be merged through mm?
It's on my list. I just was away for a few days.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-03-08 9:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-03-07 8:58 Stanislaw Gruszka
2011-03-08 9:05 ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]
2011-03-08 9:27 ` [tip:core/debugobjects] debugobjects: Add hint for better object identification tip-bot for Stanislaw Gruszka
2011-03-08 12:14 ` Thomas Gleixner
2011-03-08 12:38 ` Stanislaw Gruszka
2011-03-08 15:15 ` tip-bot for Stanislaw Gruszka
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