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| author | Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> | 2009-07-24 05:31:17 +0200 |
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| committer | Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> | 2009-09-21 15:14:57 +0200 |
| commit | 22f8b458223151272f6a1e57847b90979958cc7b (patch) | |
| tree | 1ae3191ed13962493bc9b87ffb8aab1183ab5f1c /mm/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | trivial: doc: hpfall: accept disk device to unload as argument (diff) | |
| download | linux-22f8b458223151272f6a1e57847b90979958cc7b.tar.xz linux-22f8b458223151272f6a1e57847b90979958cc7b.zip | |
trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
Improve the help text for PAGE_POISONING.
Also fix some typos and improve consistency within the file.
Signed-of-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
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. |