Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.6.0-test8-mm1 | From | Robert Love <> | Date | Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:27:25 -0400 |
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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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