Date: Tue, 8 Aug 2006 12:36:35 -0400
From: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
To: Kirill Korotaev <dev@sw.ru>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>,
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       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dev@openvz.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: + sys_getppid-oopses-on-debug-kernel.patch added to -mm tree
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On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 07:39:52PM +0400, Kirill Korotaev wrote:
 > >>Even without getting into just how ugly this is, is it really worth
 > >>it?
 > it is impossible to run debug kernels w/o this patch :/
 > or are you asking whether this optimization worth it?
 > 
 > What makes me worry is that this is a sign that vendors
 > don't even bother to run debug kernels :((((

Fedora rawhide is nearly always shipping with DEBUG_SLAB enabled,
and we didn't hit this once.  Are you sure this is a problem
with DEBUG_SLAB, and not DEBUG_PAGEALLOC ?

		Dave

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