From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail137.messagelabs.com (mail137.messagelabs.com [216.82.249.19]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 199A26B004D for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:38:23 -0400 (EDT) Subject: Re: kmemleak hexdump proposal From: Catalin Marinas In-Reply-To: <1246270774.6364.9.camel@penberg-laptop> References: <20090628173632.GA3890@localdomain.by> <84144f020906290243u7a362465p6b1f566257fa3239@mail.gmail.com> <20090629101917.GA3093@localdomain.by> <1246270774.6364.9.camel@penberg-laptop> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 11:38:00 +0100 Message-Id: <1246271880.21450.13.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Pekka Enberg Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky , "Paul E. McKenney" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 13:19 +0300, Pekka Enberg wrote: > On Mon, 2009-06-29 at 13:19 +0300, Sergey Senozhatsky wrote: > > Well, it's not easy to come up with something strong. > > I agree, that stack gives you almost all you need. > > > > HEX dump can give you a _tip_ in case you're not sure. > > Don't get me wrong, I'm not against it in any way. If Catalin is > interested in merging this kind of functionality, go for it! You might > want to consider unconditionally enabling the hexdump. If the > information is valuable, we should print it all the time. Though I prefer to do as much as possible in user space, I think this feature would be useful. Anyway, I may not include it before the next merging window (when is actually the best time for new features). Currently, my main focus is on reducing the false positives. -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org