linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kmemcheck: Disable SLUB and SLAB debugging when kmemcheck is enabled

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Date:	Mon, 23 Feb 2009 15:25:36 +0000
From:	Sitsofe Wheeler <sitsofe@...oo.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	mingo@...e.hu, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	vegard.nossum@...il.com, cl@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemcheck: Disable SLUB and SLAB debugging when kmemcheck is enabled

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 11:35:12AM +0200, Pekka Enberg wrote:
> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> 
> Enabling kmemcheck in Kconfig is a painful experience. Lets make it a
> tad bit easier by inverting the dependencies to SLUB and SLAB debugging.
> As kmemcheck is more powerful than slab debugging, disable the latter
> functionality if an user enables kmemcheck.

You may also want to add something in the Documentation/kmemcheck.txt
saying that it conflicts with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and
CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG so that people realise why it is not presented as an
option...

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