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SubjectRe: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2
On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:08:52AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> IOW, DEBUG_SLAB is something that a distro kernel can reasonably enable
> for users by default (I think fedora-devel does, for example).

Correct.

> - neither: usable for benchmarking
> - DEBUG_SLAB: perfectly usable for normal work
> - DEBUG_PAGEALLOC (with or without DEBUG_SLAB): debugging tool only
>
> At least that's my opinion, maybe others have other experiences.

That's pretty much my experience. I get people screaming at me when
I enable PAGEALLOC for a day or so in the Fedora-devel kernel if I'm
chasing something :)

Dave

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