Re: Slab corruption in 2.6.16-rc5-mm2

From: Benjamin LaHaise
Date: Thu Mar 09 2006 - 10:58:22 EST


On Thu, Mar 09, 2006 at 07:50:15AM -0800, Martin J. Bligh wrote:
> Do we NOT want to have DEBUG_SLAB and DEBUG_PAGEALLOC both enabled?
> Running multiple permutations is going to get really painful on the
> systems involved. Any other requests for what gets enabled (I really
> want to just stick to one 'debug' setup if possible).

Debug kernels are incredibly slow, making hitting certain races next to
impossible. By all means non-DEBUG kernels should definately be getting
tested.

-ben
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