debugobjects: Add hint for better object identification

In complex subsystems like mac80211 structures can contain several
timers and work structs, so identifying a specific instance from the
call trace and object type output of debugobjects can be hard.

Allow the subsystems which support debugobjects to provide a hint
function. This function returns a pointer to a kernel address
(preferrably the objects callback function) which is printed along
with the debugobjects type.

Add hint methods for timer_list, work_struct and hrtimer.

[ tglx: Massaged changelog, made it compile ]

Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
LKML-Reference: <20110307085809.GA9334@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/kernel/workqueue.c b/kernel/workqueue.c
index ee6578b578ad..b5fe4c00eb3c 100644
--- a/kernel/workqueue.c
+++ b/kernel/workqueue.c
@@ -316,6 +316,11 @@ static inline int __next_wq_cpu(int cpu, const struct cpumask *mask,
 
 static struct debug_obj_descr work_debug_descr;
 
+static void *work_debug_hint(void *addr)
+{
+        return ((struct work_struct *) addr)->func;
+}
+
 /*
  * fixup_init is called when:
  * - an active object is initialized
@@ -387,6 +392,7 @@ static int work_fixup_free(void *addr, enum debug_obj_state state)
 
 static struct debug_obj_descr work_debug_descr = {
         .name           = "work_struct",
+        .debug_hint     = work_debug_hint,
         .fixup_init     = work_fixup_init,
         .fixup_activate = work_fixup_activate,
         .fixup_free     = work_fixup_free,