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From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH] remove ptrinfo
Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 19:53:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <41360C7D.4020009@colorfullife.com> (raw)

Christoph wrote:

>it's defined in slab.c but not used anywhere
>  
>
Correct: ptrinfo is a debug-only function. Intended to be called from 
kgdb stubs or for local printk debugging tests.
I think gdb even allows to call functions while it's stopped on a 
breakpoint.

I added it as an example what slab knows about it's objects - I have 
such test functions in my local files, but most developers don't know 
how slab tracks objects. It's reference code - I'm not sure if it 
belongs into the kernel or not.

--
    Manfred


             reply	other threads:[~2004-09-01 17:58 UTC|newest]

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2004-09-01 17:53 Manfred Spraul [this message]
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2004-09-01 10:02 [PATCH] remove ptrinfo Christoph Hellwig

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