Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 09 Mar 2006 07:54:16 -0800 | From | "Martin J. Bligh" <> | Subject | Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2 |
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>> DEBUG_PAGEALLOC in particular is *fantastic* at making bugs hide. >> I've lost many an hour trying to pin bugs down due to that. > > > Is this backwards? We're saying DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is bad? > > OK, what I'm going to try to do, given the recent comments re > CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and also PAGEALLOC is to arrange with Andy to run > a debug kernel as well as a normal kernel for every test, and then > we can publish the results on http://test.kernel.org. For now it'll be > a seperate matrix, until I work out how to fold the 3d cube nicely > into 2d - I know I have to do that anyway, so no big deal. > > Do we NOT want to have DEBUG_SLAB and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC both enabled? > Running multiple permutations is going to get really painful on the > systems involved. Any other requests for what gets enabled (I really > want to just stick to one 'debug' setup if possible). > > I have no idea why I didn't do this a year ago <slaps self>.
Oh, and I ported CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC to x86_64 last week. Will send out the patch later today.
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