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

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Message-ID: <20091012183725.GI17138@elte.hu>
Date:	Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:37:25 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...ymtl.ca>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, 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:

> * Ingo Molnar (mingo@...e.hu) wrote:
> > 
> > * 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.
> > 
> 
> Other than: it did not occur to me, no, there is no reason for not using
> debugobjects there. :-)
> 
> As long as we can tag the object as
> - initialized
> - active
> - inactive
> 
> And dump a nice fat warning when the object is activated twice, that
> should suffice. Now time is a bit short on my side, but I'll keep in
> mind to respin a version on top of debugobjects soon.

ok, thanks.

Commit to check would be:

  237fc6e: add hrtimer specific debugobjects code
  c6f3a97: debugobjects: add timer specific object debugging code

	Ingo
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