From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] delayed kobject release: help find buggy code
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2013 08:36:12 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130627153612.GA25244@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130627140613.GB12530@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 03:06:14PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> Greg,
>
> This is an updated copy of my delayed kobject release debugging patch
> from 2011, which I notice hasn't hit mainline. Please consider merging
> this so that driver authors and subsystem maintainers have a way to test
> code for kobject refcounting errors.
>
> Moreover, please also consider whether to make the debug option default
> to 'y' when CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNEL is enabled.
Nice, I had forgotten about this code. Have you run it in a while to
see if things still work well?
I'll queue this up for 3.12, my 3.11 trees are now closed.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-06-27 15:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-06-27 14:06 [PATCH] delayed kobject release: help find buggy code Russell King
2013-06-27 15:36 ` Greg KH [this message]
2013-06-27 18:15 ` Russell King
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