Re: [PATCH] kref: add function for reading kref value

From: Eric Dumazet
Date: Mon Dec 12 2011 - 10:41:39 EST


Le lundi 12 dÃcembre 2011 Ã 17:39 +0200, Daniel Baluta a Ãcrit :

> Ok, for the moment it seems to be a bad idea. But my intention is
> to integrate kref to networking code, and then to write a general
> debugging tool for refs.
>
> Tracking down reference count problems is hard, and this tool can
> really help everyone.

I dont think kref will help you that much, because its used everywhere.

Adding a general debugging tool will provide too much noise.

Instead, we (network dev) add debugging points where we want.



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