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From: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
To: "Roedel, Joerg" <Joerg.Roedel@amd.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] dma-debug: print some unfreed allocations
Date: Wed, 18 May 2011 15:48:28 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1305758908.8827.3.camel@jlt3.sipsolutions.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110516110029.GC31309@amd.com>

On Mon, 2011-05-16 at 13:00 +0200, Roedel, Joerg wrote:
> > +		/*
> > +		 * If we have, print out some stack traces for the allocations.
> > +		 * In case of module unload, the stack traces will be useless,
> > +		 * but instead of unloading the module you can manually unbind
> > +		 * the driver instead and get useful traces.
> > +		 */
> > +		printk(KERN_WARNING "Showing traces for %d allocations:\n",
> > +		       DMA_DEBUG_NUM_PRINT_UNFREED);

> This is surely useful to developers, but can trash the dmesg if done
> unconditionally. I would prefer this verbose output to be configurable
> and off by default.

Are you thinking of runtime or compile time configuration? Kconfig entry
depending on stacktrace (or selecting it, depending on have_stacktrace)
would be easy enough.

johannes


  reply	other threads:[~2011-05-18 22:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-05-10 18:42 [PATCH] dma-debug: print some unfreed allocations Johannes Berg
2011-05-11 12:47 ` [PATCH v2] " Johannes Berg
2011-05-16 11:00   ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-05-18 22:48     ` Johannes Berg [this message]
2011-05-19  8:19       ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-05-20 16:36         ` [PATCH v3] " Johannes Berg
2011-05-23 12:35           ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-06-08 11:03             ` Johannes Berg
2011-06-08 12:16               ` Roedel, Joerg
2011-06-08 12:26                 ` Johannes Berg
2011-06-08 12:37                   ` Roedel, Joerg

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