Re: Linux 2.6.31

[Paul Mackerras]

Linus Torvalds writes:

> There's also a fair chunk of new debugging/peformance counter stuff: 
> memory leak detection ("kmemleak"), memory usage checking ("kmemcheck") 
> and performance counters ("perf_counter"). Those new debugging features 
> are not likely usable under any real load, but are good for finding kernel 
> bugs at a huge performance cost.

Just to be clear, that last sentence applies to kmemleak and
kmemcheck, but not perf_counters, right?

Paul.
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