Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Tue, 03 Apr 2012 16:22:46 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Prevent crash on missing sysfs attribute group |
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Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> writes:
> On Tue, 2012-04-03 at 00:50 -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> So I am asking that since perf is built in a way that actively makes >> debugging these kinds of problems hard that you please add additional >> debugging code to perf_pmu_register or some other better location so >> that simply registering something buggy with perf will show the bug. >> >> > Is there a convenient helper function that we can use that validates the > attribute_group structure? We could use such a function to do the > validation at a point where we still know where it came from.
There isn't but I was just thinking before you sent this that we could really use one.
Eric
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