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

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Message-ID: <19f34abd0902260016x1b354583o418d5f77fe51ae4e@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 09:16:10 +0100
From:	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
Cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemcheck: Disable SLUB and SLAB debugging when kmemcheck 
	is enabled

2009/2/26 Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>:
> From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
> Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 11:35:13 +0200
> Subject: [PATCH] kmemcheck: Disable SLUB and SLAB debugging when kmemcheck is enabled
>
> 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.
>
> Cc: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>
> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>

Thanks, applied!


Vegard

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