From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail172.messagelabs.com (mail172.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.3]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BA8A86B004D for ; Mon, 29 Jun 2009 06:49:32 -0400 (EDT) Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:52:46 +0300 From: Sergey Senozhatsky Subject: Re: kmemleak hexdump proposal Message-ID: <20090629105246.GB3731@localdomain.by> References: <20090628173632.GA3890@localdomain.by> <84144f020906290243u7a362465p6b1f566257fa3239@mail.gmail.com> <20090629101917.GA3093@localdomain.by> <1246270774.6364.9.camel@penberg-laptop> <1246271880.21450.13.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1246271880.21450.13.camel@pc1117.cambridge.arm.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Catalin Marinas Cc: Pekka Enberg , "Paul E. McKenney" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On (06/29/09 11:38), Catalin Marinas wrote: > 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, Agreed. Good example is 'function filtering' ;) > I think this feature would be useful. > So, I'll continue my work. (given patch didn't even passed ./checkpatch.pl). Ok? > 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. Sure. No problems. > > -- > Catalin > Sergey -- 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