Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:53:56 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: PATCH] debug: add notifier chain debugging |
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* Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> wrote:
> From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> > Subject: [PATCH] debug: add notifier chain debugging > > during some development we suspected a case where we left something in > a notifier chain that was from a module that was unloaded already... > and that sort of thing is rather hard to track down. > > This patch adds a very simple sanity check (which isn't all that > expensive) to make sure the notifier we're about to call is actually > from either the kernel itself of from a still-loaded module, avoiding > a hard-to-chase-down crash.
applied for testing, thanks Arjan.
Ingo
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