From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752670Ab0CSUxk (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:53:40 -0400 Received: from smtp.polymtl.ca ([132.207.4.11]:45439 "EHLO smtp.polymtl.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752612Ab0CSUxf (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:53:35 -0400 Message-Id: <20100319204739.574593298@efficios.com> User-Agent: quilt/0.46-1 Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 16:47:39 -0400 From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, laijs@cn.fujitsu.com, dipankar@in.ibm.com, josh@joshtriplett.org, dvhltc@us.ibm.com, niv@us.ibm.com, tglx@linutronix.de, peterz@infradead.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, dhowells@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, adobriyan@gmail.com Subject: [RFC patch 0/3] RCU head debug objects X-Poly-FromMTA: (test.casi.polymtl.ca [132.207.72.60]) at Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:52:33 +0000 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, This patchset introduces a debugobjects-based rcu list head debugging infrastructure. The first patch adds the ability to keep track of a "state machine" into debugobjects. The state machine logic is all contained in the type-aware caller. Debugobjects only keep track of the current state (a single integer). A state validation/transition API is provided to debugobjects users. This patchset is based on 2.6.33.1. Comments are welcome, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers OpenPGP key fingerprint: 8CD5 52C3 8E3C 4140 715F BA06 3F25 A8FE 3BAE 9A68