linux-kernel - [PATCH 11/11] Paravirt debug defaults off

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Message-Id: <200702060353.l163riZ9000783@zach-dev.vmware.com>
Date:	Mon, 5 Feb 2007 19:53:44 -0800
From:	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
To:	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Andi Kleen <ak@....de>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>,
	Chris Wright <chrisw@...s-sol.org>,
	Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>
Subject: [PATCH 11/11] Paravirt debug defaults off

Deliberate register clobber around performance critical inline code is great for
testing, bad to leave on by default.  Many people ship with DEBUG_KERNEL turned
on, so stop making DEBUG_PARAVIRT default on.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@...are.com>

diff -r 3a8033f42ecf arch/i386/Kconfig.debug
--- a/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug	Fri Feb 02 17:33:35 2007 -0800
+++ b/arch/i386/Kconfig.debug	Fri Feb 02 17:48:45 2007 -0800
@@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ config DOUBLEFAULT
 
 config DEBUG_PARAVIRT
 	bool "Enable some paravirtualization debugging"
-	default y
+	default n
 	depends on PARAVIRT && DEBUG_KERNEL
 	help
 	  Currently deliberately clobbers regs which are allowed to be
-
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