From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752262Ab1CHJFm (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2011 04:05:42 -0500 Received: from www.tglx.de ([62.245.132.106]:51831 "EHLO www.tglx.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751465Ab1CHJFj (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Mar 2011 04:05:39 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 10:05:17 +0100 (CET) From: Thomas Gleixner To: Stanislaw Gruszka cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 repost] debugobjects: print more data In-Reply-To: <20110307085809.GA9334@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <20110307085809.GA9334@redhat.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) 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 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 > --- > Cc Andrew, perhaps this could be merged through mm? It's on my list. I just was away for a few days.