Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965162AbbENUYS (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2015 16:24:18 -0400 Received: from mail.linuxfoundation.org ([140.211.169.12]:46677 "EHLO mail.linuxfoundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965116AbbENUYO (ORCPT ); Thu, 14 May 2015 16:24:14 -0400 Date: Thu, 14 May 2015 13:24:13 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Sasha Levin Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kirill@shutemov.name Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] mm: debug: formatting memory management structs Message-Id: <20150514132413.2a56b25489e0c644e68229bb@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1431623414-1905-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> References: <1431623414-1905-1-git-send-email-sasha.levin@oracle.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 3.4.1 (GTK+ 2.24.23; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 930 Lines: 22 On Thu, 14 May 2015 13:10:03 -0400 Sasha Levin 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/