Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 09:40:38 -0700 (PDT)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: 2.6.22-rc2-mm1
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On Thu, 24 May 2007, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> 
> when constructing debug output it's a good idea to make it as 
> 'context-free' as possible. I.e. instead of saying 'Filler' and 
> explaining it somewhere in Documentation/*, just say:
> 
>   Expected memory values at 0xc90f6d50:  5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a 5a
>   ... but found the following values:    12 34 56 78 90 12 34 56

Meaning just print the corrupted values? Otherwise the text will take up 
a lot of real estate and will make it impossible to view the actual object 
contents.

I think I can skip the filler etc if its not corrupted. Maybe that will 
help?

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