Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753810AbbBMXiG (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2015 18:38:06 -0500 Received: from mail-ig0-f173.google.com ([209.85.213.173]:48242 "EHLO mail-ig0-f173.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753732AbbBMXiD (ORCPT ); Fri, 13 Feb 2015 18:38:03 -0500 Date: Fri, 13 Feb 2015 15:38:01 -0800 (PST) From: David Rientjes X-X-Sender: rientjes@chino.kir.corp.google.com To: Chris J Arges cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Jonathan Corbet , Christoph Lameter , Pekka Enberg , Joonsoo Kim , Andrew Morton , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm: slub: Add SLAB_DEBUG_CRASH option In-Reply-To: <1423865980-10417-3-git-send-email-chris.j.arges@canonical.com> Message-ID: References: <1423865980-10417-1-git-send-email-chris.j.arges@canonical.com> <1423865980-10417-3-git-send-email-chris.j.arges@canonical.com> User-Agent: Alpine 2.10 (DEB 1266 2009-07-14) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 595 Lines: 16 On Fri, 13 Feb 2015, Chris J Arges wrote: > This option crashes the kernel whenever corruption is initially detected. This > is useful when trying to use crash dump analysis to determine where memory was > corrupted. > > To enable this option use slub_debug=C. > Why isn't this done in other debugging functions such as free_debug_processing()? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/