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From: Lei Wen <adrian.wenl@gmail.com>
To: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, leiwen@marvell.com,
	wwang27@marvell.com
Subject: Re: workqueue panic in 3.4 kernel
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:41:10 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALZhoSST8DWKhG9FBJp_Z+WVMLVsiS84zebsNSsnLaKw0f=ZyA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130312061303.GB20037@mtj.dyndns.org>

On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 2:13 PM, Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 02:01:16PM +0800, Lei Wen wrote:
>> I see...
>> How about only check those workqueue structure not on stack?
>> For current onstack usage is rare, and should be easier to check with.
>
> No, kzalloc is not required. The memory area can come from any source.
> If you're interested in improving the debug situation, please stop
> trying to do something impossible (you can't track lifetime of random
> memory area without extra bookkeeping) try to find out why debugobj
> didn't detect it (did you even enable it? either via
> CONFIG_DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT or "debug_objects" boot param).
>


I see...
Thanks for the detailed explanation! :)

Thanks,
Lei

      reply	other threads:[~2013-03-12  6:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-05  7:31 workqueue panic in 3.4 kernel Lei Wen
2013-03-05 16:32 ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-06 14:39   ` Lei Wen
2013-03-06 19:14     ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-07  1:15       ` Lei Wen
2013-03-07 15:22         ` Lei Wen
2013-03-07 15:49           ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-07 16:07             ` Thomas Gleixner
     [not found]               ` <CALZhoSQBH3RxSoaVDCYoCyRVRndht-Rk0rh_w5Dbp6+5T_auSw@mail.gmail.com>
2013-03-12  5:12                 ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-12  5:18                   ` Lei Wen
2013-03-12  5:24                     ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-12  5:34                       ` Lei Wen
2013-03-12  5:40                         ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-12  6:01                           ` Lei Wen
2013-03-12  6:13                             ` Tejun Heo
2013-03-12  6:41                               ` Lei Wen [this message]

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