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From: "Russell King (Oracle)" <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: "jim.tsai" <Wei-chin.Tsai@mediatek.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
	AngeloGioacchino Del Regno 
	<angelogioacchino.delregno@collabora.com>,
	wsd_upstream@mediatek.com, mel.lee@mediatek.com,
	ivan.tseng@mediatek.com, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-mediatek@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 1/1] memory: export symbols for process memory related functions
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 12:20:21 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ZIMK9QV5+ce69Shr@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230609110902.13799-1-Wei-chin.Tsai@mediatek.com>

On Fri, Jun 09, 2023 at 07:09:00PM +0800, jim.tsai wrote:
> Export symbols for arch_vma_name and smap_gather_stats
> functions so that we can detect the memory leak issues.
> Besides, we can know which memory type is leaked, too.

This commit description doesn't give enough information. How does
exporting arch_vma_name() help with detecting memory leak issues?

You haven't included any users of these new exports, so the initial
reaction is going to be negative - please include the users of these
new symbols in your patch set.

Thanks.

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       reply	other threads:[~2023-06-09 11:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <20230609110902.13799-1-Wei-chin.Tsai@mediatek.com>
2023-06-09 11:20 ` Russell King (Oracle) [this message]
2023-06-09 16:09   ` [PATCH v1 1/1] memory: export symbols for process memory related functions Wei-chin Tsai (蔡維晉)
2023-06-10  0:21     ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-06-12 14:21       ` Wei-chin Tsai (蔡維晉)
2023-06-16  9:24         ` Matthias Brugger

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