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SubjectRe: 2.6.0-test8-mm1
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On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 18:53, Thomas Schlichter wrote:

> For me the big question stays why enabling the DEBUG_* options results in a
> corrupt cursor and the false dots on the top of each row... (with both
> kernels)

Almost certainly due to CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB or CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
which debug memory allocations and frees.

Code that commits the usual memory bugs (use-after-free, etc.) will
quickly die with these set, whereas without them the bug might never
manifest.

Robert Love


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