From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kirill@shutemov.name
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] mm: debug: formatting memory management structs
Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 13:24:13 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150514132413.2a56b25489e0c644e68229bb@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1431623414-1905-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com>
On Thu, 14 May 2015 13:10:03 -0400 Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote:
> This patch series adds knowledge about various memory management structures
> to the standard print functions.
>
> In essence, it allows us to easily print those structures:
>
> printk("%pZp %pZm %pZv", page, mm, vma);
>
> This allows us to customize output when hitting bugs even further, thus
> we introduce VM_BUG() which allows printing anything when hitting a bug
> rather than just a single piece of information.
>
> This also means we can get rid of VM_BUG_ON_* since they're now nothing
> more than a format string.
A good set of example output would help people understand this proposal.
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Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-05-14 17:10 [PATCH 00/11] mm: debug: formatting memory management structs Sasha Levin
2015-05-14 17:10 ` [PATCH 01/11] mm: debug: format flags in a buffer Sasha Levin
2015-05-14 17:10 ` [PATCH 02/11] mm: debug: deal with a new family of MM pointers Sasha Levin
2015-05-14 17:10 ` [PATCH 03/11] mm: debug: dump VMA into a string rather than directly on screen Sasha Levin
2015-05-14 17:10 ` [PATCH 04/11] mm: debug: dump struct MM " Sasha Levin
2015-05-14 17:10 ` [PATCH 05/11] mm: debug: dump page " Sasha Levin
2015-06-30 23:35 ` David Rientjes
2015-07-01 8:53 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-07-01 19:21 ` Sasha Levin
2015-07-01 21:25 ` David Rientjes
2015-07-01 21:34 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2015-07-01 22:33 ` Vlastimil Babka
2015-07-01 22:50 ` Sasha Levin
2015-07-08 23:58 ` David Rientjes
2015-08-06 15:08 ` Sasha Levin
2015-05-14 17:10 ` [PATCH 06/11] mm: debug: clean unused code Sasha Levin
2015-05-14 17:10 ` [PATCH 07/11] mm: debug: VM_BUG() Sasha Levin
2015-05-14 17:10 ` [PATCH 08/11] mm: debug: kill VM_BUG_ON_PAGE Sasha Levin
2015-05-14 17:10 ` [PATCH 09/11] mm: debug: kill VM_BUG_ON_VMA Sasha Levin
2015-05-14 17:10 ` [PATCH 10/11] mm: debug: kill VM_BUG_ON_MM Sasha Levin
2015-05-14 17:10 ` [PATCH 11/11] mm: debug: use VM_BUG() to help with debug output Sasha Levin
2015-05-14 20:24 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2015-05-14 20:26 ` [PATCH 00/11] mm: debug: formatting memory management structs Sasha Levin
2015-06-26 21:34 ` Sasha Levin
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