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From: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] DEBUG_RCU_HEAD: Debug and fix racy call_rcu() users
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2009 14:30:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091012183007.GA12445@Krystal> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091012180739.GE17138@elte.hu>

* Ingo Molnar (mingo@elte.hu) wrote:
> 
> * Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Here is a patchset, done on 2.6.30.9, which permits to detect and fix 
> > racy call_rcu() users.
> 
> Nice idea - but any reason why this isnt using the debugojects 
> framework? That debugging framework is upstream already and allows this 
> kind of object lifetime debugging - in a much broader way.
> 

Other than: it did not occur to me, no, there is no reason for not using
debugobjects there. :-)

As long as we can tag the object as
- initialized
- active
- inactive

And dump a nice fat warning when the object is activated twice, that
should suffice. Now time is a bit short on my side, but I'll keep in
mind to respin a version on top of debugobjects soon.

Thanks,

Mathieu


> 	Ingo

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-12 18:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-06 14:37 [patch 0/4] DEBUG_RCU_HEAD: Debug and fix racy call_rcu() users Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-06 14:37 ` [patch 1/4] kernel call_rcu usage: initialize rcu_head structures Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-06 15:19   ` [patch 1/4] kernel call_rcu usage: initialize rcu_head structures (v2) Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-06 14:37 ` [patch 2/4] tree rcu: Add debug RCU head option Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-06 15:54   ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-06 16:09     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-06 16:17       ` Eric Dumazet
2009-10-06 16:35         ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-06 14:37 ` [patch 3/4] markers call_rcu usage: initialize rcu_head structures Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-06 14:37 ` [patch 4/4] vunmap: Fix racy use of rcu_head Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-06 15:23   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-06 16:43   ` Christoph Lameter
2009-10-06 17:33     ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-07  4:20 ` [patch 0/4] DEBUG_RCU_HEAD: Debug and fix racy call_rcu() users Paul E. McKenney
2009-10-07 12:36   ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2009-10-12 18:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 18:30   ` Mathieu Desnoyers [this message]
2009-10-12 18:37     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-10-12 18:56       ` Thomas Gleixner

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