linux-kernel - [PATCH] kobject: show debug info on delayed kobject release

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Date:	Wed, 9 Oct 2013 09:26:21 +0800
From:	Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
To:	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] kobject: show debug info on delayed kobject release

Useful for locating buggy drivers on kernel oops.

It may add dozens of new lines to boot dmesg. DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE is
hopefully only enabled in debug kernels (like maybe the Fedora rawhide
one, or at developers), so being a bit more verbose is likely ok.

CC: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux@....linux.org.uk>
CC: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Fengguang Wu <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
---
 lib/kobject.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/lib/kobject.c b/lib/kobject.c
index 669bf19..084f7b1 100644
--- a/lib/kobject.c
+++ b/lib/kobject.c
@@ -592,7 +592,7 @@ static void kobject_release(struct kref *kref)
 {
 	struct kobject *kobj = container_of(kref, struct kobject, kref);
 #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT_RELEASE
-	pr_debug("kobject: '%s' (%p): %s, parent %p (delayed)\n",
+	pr_info("kobject: '%s' (%p): %s, parent %p (delayed)\n",
 		 kobject_name(kobj), kobj, __func__, kobj->parent);
 	INIT_DELAYED_WORK(&kobj->release, kobject_delayed_cleanup);
 	schedule_delayed_work(&kobj->release, HZ);
-- 
1.7.10.4

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