Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2

[Dave Jones]

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

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