Re: [2/2] vmallocinfo: Add caller information

From: Mike Frysinger
Date: Fri Mar 21 2008 - 22:41:45 EST


On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 4:55 PM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> * Christoph Lameter <clameter@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > the best i found for lockdep was to include a fair number of them,
> > > and to skip the top 3. struct vm_area that vmalloc uses isnt
> > > space-critical, so 4-8 entries with a 3 skip would be quite ok. (but
> > > can be more than that as well)
> >
> > STACKTRACE depends on STACKTRACE_SUPPORT which is not available on all
> > arches? alpha blackfin ia64 etc are missing it?
>
> one more reason for them to implement it.

as long as the new code in question is properly ifdef-ed, making it
rely on STACKTRACE sounds fine. i'll open an item in our Blackfin
tracker to add support for it.
-mike
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