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SubjectRe: Linux 2.6.31
Linus Torvalds writes:

> There's also a fair chunk of new debugging/peformance counter stuff:
> memory leak detection ("kmemleak"), memory usage checking ("kmemcheck")
> and performance counters ("perf_counter"). Those new debugging features
> are not likely usable under any real load, but are good for finding kernel
> bugs at a huge performance cost.

Just to be clear, that last sentence applies to kmemleak and
kmemcheck, but not perf_counters, right?

Paul.


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