Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759263AbXEaAuN (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 20:50:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755379AbXEaAt6 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 20:49:58 -0400 Received: from netops-testserver-4-out.sgi.com ([192.48.171.29]:60759 "EHLO relay.sgi.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758818AbXEaAt5 (ORCPT ); Wed, 30 May 2007 20:49:57 -0400 Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 17:49:56 -0700 (PDT) From: Christoph Lameter X-X-Sender: clameter@schroedinger.engr.sgi.com To: young dave cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [RFC 1/4] CONFIG_STABLE: Define it In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20070531002047.702473071@sgi.com> <20070531003012.302019683@sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 667 Lines: 19 On Thu, 31 May 2007, young dave wrote: > Hi Christoph, > > > Introduce CONFIG_STABLE to control checks only useful for development. > > What about control checks only as SLUB_DEBUG is set? Debug code is always included in all builds unless it is an embedded system. Debug code is kept out of the hot path. Disabling SLUB_DEBUG should only be done for embedded systems. That is why the option is in CONFIG_EMBEDDED. - 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/