linux-kernel - Re: [patch 1/5] Debugobjects transition check (updated changelog)

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Message-ID: <20100415183758.GO2471@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Date:	Thu, 15 Apr 2010 11:37:58 -0700
From:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, laijs@...fujitsu.com,
	dipankar@...ibm.com, josh@...htriplett.org, dvhltc@...ibm.com,
	niv@...ibm.com, peterz@...radead.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu, dhowells@...hat.com,
	eric.dumazet@...il.com, adobriyan@...il.com,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/5] Debugobjects transition check (updated changelog)

On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 08:32:05PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> B1;2005;0cOn Tue, 6 Apr 2010, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> > Implement a basic state machine checker in the debugobjects.
> > 
> > This state machine checker detects races and inconsistencies within the "active"
> > life of a debugobject. The checker only keeps track of the current state; all
> > the state machine logic is kept at the object instance level.
> > 
> > The checker works by adding a supplementary "unsigned int astate" field to the
> > debug_obj structure. It keeps track of the current "active state" of the object.
> > 
> > The only constraints that are imposed on the states by the debugobjects system
> > is that:
> > 
> > - activation of an object sets the current active state to 0,
> > - deactivation of an object expects the current active state to be 0.
> > 
> > For the rest of the states, the state mapping is determined by the specific
> > object instance. Therefore, the logic keeping track of the state machine is
> > within the specialized instance, without any need to know about it at the
> > debugobject level.
> > 
> > The current object active state is changed by calling:
> > 
> > debug_object_active_state(addr, descr, expect, next)
> > 
> > where "expect" is the expected state and "next" is the next state to move to if
> > the expected state is found. A warning is generated if the expected is not
> > found.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> 
> Please feel free to pull that into the rcu branch where the users are
> going to be.

Thank you, Thomas!!!

							Thanx, Paul
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