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Message-ID: <20080118204956.GE3079@elte.hu>
Date:	Fri, 18 Jan 2008 21:49:56 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
Cc:	travis@....com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] x86: Add debug of invalid per_cpu map accesses


* Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de> wrote:

> On Friday 18 January 2008 19:30:16 travis@....com wrote:
> > Provide a means to trap usages of per_cpu map variables before they 
> > are setup.  Define CONFIG_DEBUG_PER_CPU_MAPS to activate.
> 
> Are you sure that debug option is generally useful enough to merge? It 
> seems very specific to your patchkit, but I'm not sure it would be 
> worth carrying forever in the kernel.

yeah, i think it's simple enough.

	Ingo
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