Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751151AbWCIQFE (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:05:04 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752002AbWCIQFE (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:05:04 -0500 Received: from dvhart.com ([64.146.134.43]:12209 "EHLO dvhart.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751151AbWCIQFD (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:05:03 -0500 Message-ID: <44105227.8020503@mbligh.org> Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 08:04:55 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051013) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Benjamin LaHaise Cc: Dave Jones , Jesper Juhl , Jens Axboe , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , markhe@nextd.demon.co.uk, Andrea Arcangeli , Mike Christie , James Bottomley Subject: Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2 References: <200603060117.16484.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> <200603062124.42223.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> <20060306203036.GQ4595@suse.de> <9a8748490603061341l50febef9o3cb480bdbdcf925f@mail.gmail.com> <20060306215515.GE11565@redhat.com> <44104EB7.9090103@mbligh.org> <20060309155437.GE5410@kvack.org> In-Reply-To: <20060309155437.GE5410@kvack.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 987 Lines: 23 Benjamin LaHaise wrote: > On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:50:15AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >>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). > > > Debug kernels are incredibly slow, making hitting certain races next to > impossible. By all means non-DEBUG kernels should definately be getting > tested. It'd still run a totally non-debug kernel as well - I want that for the perf tests etc anyway. I guess the question is whether the debug kernels should have most of the DEBUG_* turned on, or just a select few. M. - 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/