From: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@kernel.org>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: rcu@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
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iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com, andrii@kernel.org,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>,
Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>,
David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 sl-b 1/5] mm: Add mem_dump_obj() to print source of memory block
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 09:59:16 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201209175916.GE2657@paulmck-ThinkPad-P72> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201209175306.GC25719@infradead.org>
On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 05:53:06PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 06:57:02AM -0800, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> > On Wed, Dec 09, 2020 at 08:17:10AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > > Your two new exports don't actually seem to get used in modular code
> > > at all in this series.
> >
> > Indeed, and I either need to remove the exports or make my test code in
> > kernel/rcu/rcuscale.o suitable for upstreaming. Or find the appropriate
> > mm/slab selftest location.
>
> I'd rather not export something like this which pokes deep into
> internals. That being said I've been working on off on a
> EXPORT_SYMBOL_FOR() that just exports a symbol to one specific module.
> Hopefully I'll finish it for the next merge window, and with that
> I'd feel much more comfortable with an export.
That would be really useful! I have a number of symbols that should
only be used by a few specific in-tree modules, independent of this
patch series.
For my part, I will see if there is a good mm-related location for this
sort of selftest.
Thanx, Paul
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-12-09 18:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-12-05 0:40 [PATCH RFC sl-b] Export return addresses for better diagnostics Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-05 0:40 ` [PATCH sl-b 1/6] mm: Add kmem_last_alloc() to return last allocation for memory block paulmck
2020-12-07 9:02 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-12-07 17:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-08 8:57 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-12-08 15:17 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-05 0:40 ` [PATCH sl-b 2/6] mm: Add kmem_last_alloc_errstring() to provide more kmem_last_alloc() info paulmck
2020-12-05 0:40 ` [PATCH sl-b 3/6] rcu: Make call_rcu() print allocation address of double-freed callback paulmck
2020-12-05 0:40 ` [PATCH sl-b 4/6] mm: Create kmem_last_alloc_stack() to provide stack trace in slub paulmck
2020-12-05 0:40 ` [PATCH sl-b 5/6] percpu_ref: Print allocator upon reference-count underflow paulmck
2020-12-05 0:40 ` [PATCH sl-b 6/6] percpu_ref: Print stack trace " paulmck
2020-12-09 1:11 ` [PATCH RFC v2 sl-b] Export return addresses etc. for better diagnostics Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 1:12 ` [PATCH v2 sl-b 1/5] mm: Add mem_dump_obj() to print source of memory block paulmck
2020-12-09 5:36 ` kernel test robot
2020-12-09 16:51 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 8:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-09 14:57 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 17:53 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-12-09 17:59 ` Paul E. McKenney [this message]
2020-12-09 17:28 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-12-09 23:04 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-10 10:48 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-12-10 19:56 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-10 12:04 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-12-10 23:41 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 sl-b 2/5] mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle NULL and zero-sized pointers paulmck
2020-12-09 17:48 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-12-10 3:25 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 sl-b 3/5] mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle vmalloc() memory paulmck
2020-12-09 17:51 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-12-09 19:39 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-12-09 23:23 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-10 10:49 ` Vlastimil Babka
2020-12-09 19:36 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-12-09 19:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-09 20:04 ` Uladzislau Rezki
2020-12-09 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 sl-b 4/5] rcu: Make call_rcu() print mem_dump_obj() info for double-freed callback paulmck
2020-12-09 1:13 ` [PATCH v2 sl-b 5/5] percpu_ref: Dump mem_dump_obj() info upon reference-count underflow paulmck
2020-12-11 1:19 ` [PATCH RFC v2 sl-b] Export return addresses etc. for better diagnostics Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-11 1:19 ` [PATCH v3 sl-b 1/6] mm: Add mem_dump_obj() to print source of memory block paulmck
2020-12-11 2:22 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-12-11 3:33 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-11 3:42 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-11 6:58 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-12-11 16:59 ` Paul E. McKenney
2020-12-11 6:54 ` Joonsoo Kim
2020-12-11 1:19 ` [PATCH v3 sl-b 2/6] mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle NULL and zero-sized pointers paulmck
2020-12-11 1:20 ` [PATCH v3 sl-b 3/6] mm: Make mem_dump_obj() handle vmalloc() memory paulmck
2020-12-11 1:20 ` [PATCH v3 sl-b 4/6] mm: Make mem_obj_dump() vmalloc() dumps include start and length paulmck
2020-12-11 1:20 ` [PATCH v3 sl-b 5/6] rcu: Make call_rcu() print mem_dump_obj() info for double-freed callback paulmck
2020-12-11 1:20 ` [PATCH v3 sl-b 6/6] percpu_ref: Dump mem_dump_obj() info upon reference-count underflow paulmck
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