linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the driver-core tree

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Message-ID: <1323875585.28489.48.camel@twins>
Date:	Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:13:05 +0100
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>
Cc:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the driver-core tree

On Wed, 2011-12-14 at 07:03 -0800, Greg KH wrote:

> I'll remove the use of kfree in the WARN_ON(), which should solve this
> problem.

The alternative is that we introduce something like CONFIG_KREF_DEBUG
and out-of-line the functions in that case while also adding more debug
checks. Alexey recently proposed a refcnt.h thing that almost does what
kref does but has different debug checks.


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