Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 14 May 2015 13:24:13 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 00/11] mm: debug: formatting memory management structs |
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On Thu, 14 May 2015 13:10:03 -0400 Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> wrote:
> This patch series adds knowledge about various memory management structures > to the standard print functions. > > In essence, it allows us to easily print those structures: > > printk("%pZp %pZm %pZv", page, mm, vma); > > This allows us to customize output when hitting bugs even further, thus > we introduce VM_BUG() which allows printing anything when hitting a bug > rather than just a single piece of information. > > This also means we can get rid of VM_BUG_ON_* since they're now nothing > more than a format string.
A good set of example output would help people understand this proposal.
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