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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-22 16:51:45 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-09-22 16:51:45 +0200 |
| commit | 342ff1a1b558ebbdb8cbd55ab6a63eca8b2473ca (patch) | |
| tree | 1f967f283dade6e03897169bb29513354f49f910 /mm/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jik... (diff) | |
| parent | trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment (diff) | |
| download | linux-342ff1a1b558ebbdb8cbd55ab6a63eca8b2473ca.tar.xz linux-342ff1a1b558ebbdb8cbd55ab6a63eca8b2473ca.zip | |
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (34 commits)
trivial: fix typo in aic7xxx comment
trivial: fix comment typo in drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c
trivial: typo in kernel-parameters.txt
trivial: fix typo in tracing documentation
trivial: add __init/__exit macros in drivers/gpio/bt8xxgpio.c
trivial: add __init macro/ fix of __exit macro location in ipmi_poweroff.c
trivial: remove unnecessary semicolons
trivial: Fix duplicated word "options" in comment
trivial: kbuild: remove extraneous blank line after declaration of usage()
trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument
trivial: doc: hpfall: reduce risk that hpfall can do harm
trivial: SubmittingPatches: Fix reference to renumbered step
trivial: fix typos "man[ae]g?ment" -> "management"
trivial: media/video/cx88: add __init/__exit macros to cx88 drivers
trivial: fix typo in CONFIG_DEBUG_FS in gcov doc
trivial: fix missing printk space in amd_k7_smp_check
trivial: fix typo s/ketymap/keymap/ in comment
trivial: fix typo "to to" in multiple files
trivial: fix typos in comments s/DGBU/DBGU/
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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig.debug | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug index aa99fd1f7109..af7cfb43d2f0 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC ---help--- Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages(). This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types - of memory corruptions. + of memory corruption. config WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS bool @@ -17,11 +17,11 @@ config PAGE_POISONING depends on !HIBERNATION select DEBUG_PAGEALLOC select WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS - help + ---help--- Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify the patterns before alloc_pages(). This results in a large slowdown, - but helps to find certain types of memory corruptions. + but helps to find certain types of memory corruption. - This option cannot enalbe with hibernation. Otherwise, it will get - wrong messages for memory corruption because the free pages are not - saved to the suspend image. + This option cannot be enabled in combination with hibernation as + that would result in incorrect warnings of memory corruption after + a resume because free pages are not saved to the suspend image. |