From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267382AbUIAR63 (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:58:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266910AbUIARzc (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:55:32 -0400 Received: from dbl.q-ag.de ([213.172.117.3]:61144 "EHLO dbl.q-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266892AbUIARxR (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Sep 2004 13:53:17 -0400 Message-ID: <41360C7D.4020009@colorfullife.com> Date: Wed, 01 Sep 2004 19:53:01 +0200 From: Manfred Spraul User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; fr-FR; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040803 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christoph Hellwig CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: [PATCH] remove ptrinfo Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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