Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:41:51 -0500 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2 |
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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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