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From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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: Wed, 5 Mar 2008 10:53:01 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080305185301.GA2861@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080305154829.185609547@linutronix.de>

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

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-03-05 18:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-03-05 16:03 [patch 0/5] object debugging infrastructure V2 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 ` Greg KH [this message]
2008-03-06  1:48 ` [patch 0/5] object debugging infrastructure V2 Greg KH
2008-03-06  7:54   ` Thomas Gleixner

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