Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751329AbWCIQmT (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:42:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751301AbWCIQmT (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:42:19 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:50086 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751329AbWCIQmS (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:42:18 -0500 Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 11:41:51 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Linus Torvalds Cc: "Martin J. Bligh" , Jesper Juhl , Jens Axboe , 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 Message-ID: <20060309164151.GB30809@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Linus Torvalds , "Martin J. Bligh" , Jesper Juhl , Jens Axboe , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Andrew Morton , markhe@nextd.demon.co.uk, Andrea Arcangeli , Mike Christie , James Bottomley 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> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 894 Lines: 26 On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 08:08:52AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > IOW, DEBUG_SLAB is something that a distro kernel can reasonably enable > for users by default (I think fedora-devel does, for example). Correct. > - neither: usable for benchmarking > - DEBUG_SLAB: perfectly usable for normal work > - DEBUG_PAGEALLOC (with or without DEBUG_SLAB): debugging tool only > > At least that's my opinion, maybe others have other experiences. That's pretty much my experience. I get people screaming at me when I enable PAGEALLOC for a day or so in the Fedora-devel kernel if I'm chasing something :) Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk - 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/