linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/4] DEBUG_RCU_HEAD: Debug and fix racy call

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Message-ID: <20091012180739.GE17138@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:07:39 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/4] DEBUG_RCU_HEAD: Debug and fix racy call_rcu() users


* Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.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.

	Ingo
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