Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 6 Mar 2006 22:57:06 +0100 | From | "Jesper Juhl" <> | Subject | Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2 |
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On 3/6/06, Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 06, 2006 at 10:41:07PM +0100, Jesper Juhl wrote: > > > CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB > > CONFIG_PAGE_OWNER > > CONFIG_DEBUG_VM > > CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC > > > > The resulting kernel boots and runs just fine (no Oops) and leaves > > nothing in dmesg. > > So, without the debugging options it appears to the user that > > everything is OK - nasty. > > DEBUG_PAGEALLOC in particular is *fantastic* at making bugs hide. > I've lost many an hour trying to pin bugs down due to that. >
Well, in this case, turning the option *off* hides the bug ;)
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