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From: Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
Cc: Tony Lu <tonylu@linux.alibaba.com>,
	David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>,
	shemminger@osdl.org,
	Linux Kernel Network Developers <netdev@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] net: add trace events for net_device refcnt
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 2019 11:47:33 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAM_iQpW7S9fUX33jCNhRfsK17rGmFSCkO97ujREJGsq1NpwwzQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ea3bf073-68af-d899-2664-fef54953a68d@gmail.com>

On Tue, Nov 12, 2019 at 7:27 AM David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com> wrote:
> The location alone does nothing for resolving reference count leaks; you
> really have to use stack traces to pair up the hold and put and to give
> context for what are repetitive locations for the hold and put.

+1

And, as you are using tracepoint, you get trace filter and trigger for free,
which already includes stacktrace.

      reply	other threads:[~2019-11-16 19:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-11-12 13:05 [PATCH v2 1/2] net: remove static inline from dev_put()/dev_hold() Tony Lu
2019-11-12 13:05 ` [PATCH v2 2/2] net: add trace events for net_device refcnt Tony Lu
2019-11-12 15:27   ` David Ahern
2019-11-16 19:47     ` Cong Wang [this message]

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