Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 10 Sep 2009 09:33:54 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: Linux 2.6.31 |
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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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