Re: 2.6.17-rc5-mm3

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote:

>  > kernel/mutex-debug.c:
>  > void debug_mutex_free_waiter(struct mutex_waiter *waiter)
>  > {
>  > 	DEBUG_WARN_ON(!list_empty(&waiter->list));
>  > 	memset(waiter, 0x22, sizeof(*waiter));
>  > }
> 
> Documentation/magic-number.txt sounds so promising, but we scatter 
> definitions of numbers all over the place. (No mention of the slab 
> poison values, or similar numbers there for eg, and various pointers 
> to _other_ lists of magic numbers).

we've also got include/linux/poison.h - i'll move this value there.

	Ingo