Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 11 Mar 2007 00:09:38 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH 1/3] Add ability to keep track of callers of symbol_(get|put) |
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> On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:31:35 -0200 Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> wrote: > From: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> > > When a module uses symbol_get() to increase the ref count of another > module, there is no record what module called symbol_get(). A module > can > show up as having other users, but there is no way to tell who those > users are. > > This adds that ability to symbol_put() and symbol_get().
One day I'll write a script which unwordwraps patches and then you'll all need to find new ways of torturing me.
This patch needed rather a lot of help in the coding-style department. Hopefully Rusty can comment on the content, because I'm all exhausted from cleaning it up.
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