From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759695AbYCES5v (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:57:51 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754901AbYCES5m (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:57:42 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:42712 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753746AbYCES5l (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Mar 2008 13:57:41 -0500 Date: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:53:01 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Thomas Gleixner Cc: LKML , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] object debugging infrastructure V2 Message-ID: <20080305185301.GA2861@kroah.com> References: <20080305154829.185609547@linutronix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080305154829.185609547@linutronix.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 04:03:33PM -0000, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > This is version 2 of the object debugging infrastructure. Changes > versus V1: > > - review comments processed: > - multiplexing interfaces replaced > - object type is determined by a caller provided pointer to > a debug structure which replaces the object type identifier > -> No changes to the core code for new users > - new debug state "destroyed" (kobject wishlist) > - various cleanups > > - complete detachment of the tracker object from the real object > (no change to the real objects data structure necessary anymore) > > - improved robustness (object memory management, oom cleanup) > > - full set of self tests > > - debugfs statistics > > - docbook documentation This looks very nice, thanks for the documentation as well. I'll work on adding kobjects to this infrastructure and send you a patch if it works out well. thanks, greg k-h