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From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
To: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/5] object debugging infrastructure V2
Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:54:13 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.1.00.0803060828180.3099@apollo.tec.linutronix.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080306014810.GA4927@kroah.com>

On Wed, 5 Mar 2008, Greg KH wrote:
> Here's a patch adding kobjects to this infrastructure (I didn't use a
> new CONFIG option, which it probably should be.)
> 
> Does this look correct?  I can't tell if this is going to catch
> anything, as my trees all seem to have these kinds of bugs worked out
> now, as we are already catching a number of these types of things
> already with kobjects.
> 
> Should I be doing more checks?  Different things based on the state of
> the object?

Depends on the kind of state of objects you have. Right now you only
track the initialized and the destroyed state. The question is whether
there is some other state like "access". I have a look.

Thanks,

	tglx 

      reply	other threads:[~2008-03-06  7:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-05 16:03 Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-05 16:03 ` [patch 1/5] vmalloc: do not check for freed locks on user maps Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-05 16:28   ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-05 17:20     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-05 22:56       ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-05 23:31         ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-06  2:34           ` Nick Piggin
2008-03-05 16:03 ` [patch 2/5] slab: add a flag to prevent debug_free checks on a kmem_cache Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-05 16:03 ` [patch 3/5] infrastructure to debug (dynamic) objects Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-05 16:04 ` [patch 4/5] debugobjects: add documentation Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-10 20:13   ` Randy Dunlap
2008-03-21 14:25     ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-05 16:04 ` [patch 5/5] debugobjects: add timer specific object debugging code Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-05 20:14   ` Thomas Gleixner
2008-03-05 18:53 ` [patch 0/5] object debugging infrastructure V2 Greg KH
2008-03-06  1:48 ` Greg KH
2008-03-06  7:54   ` Thomas Gleixner [this message]

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