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debugobjects is a generic infrastructure to track the life time
of kernel objects and validate the operations on those.
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debugobjects is useful to check for the following error patterns:
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debugobjects is not changing the data structure of the real
object so it can be compiled in with a minimal runtime impact
and enabled on demand with a kernel command line option.
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