Re: + sys_getppid-oopses-on-debug-kernel.patch added to -mm tree

From: Dave Jones
Date: Tue Aug 08 2006 - 12:35:59 EST


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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