linux-kernel - Re: [RFC V2] kthread: add object debug support

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Message-ID: <87d03qjs99.fsf@nanos.tec.linutronix.de>
Date:   Sun, 16 Aug 2020 21:38:26 +0200
From:   Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
To:     Stephen Boyd <sboyd@...nel.org>, Felix.Kuehling@....com,
        Qianli Zhao <zhaoqianligood@...il.com>,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, axboe@...nel.dk
Cc:     john.stultz@...aro.org, ben.dooks@...ethink.co.uk,
        bfields@...hat.com, cl@...k-chips.com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, zhaoqianli@...omi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC V2] kthread: add object debug support

On Sat, Aug 15 2020 at 01:37, Stephen Boyd wrote:
> Quoting Thomas Gleixner (2020-08-12 03:27:03)
>> or any other variant of insanity which makes the check claim that this
>> is statically initialized then you rightfully can keep the pieces :)
>
> Makes sense. Maybe this "technique" should be documented in
> Documentation/core-api/debug-objects.rst? I can cook up a patch to add
> is_static_object() to the Fixup functions section.

Sure. Better documentation is always a good thing.

Thanks,

        tglx