linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] x86: also use debug_pagealloc_enabled() for free_init

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Date:	Wed, 3 Feb 2016 14:50:33 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@....com>
cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, x86@...nel.org,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 4/4] x86: also use debug_pagealloc_enabled() for
 free_init_pages

On Wed, 3 Feb 2016, Christian Borntraeger wrote:

> we want to couple all debugging features with debug_pagealloc_enabled()
> and not with the config option CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
> 
> Suggested-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
> Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>

[+Joonsoo]

Joonso has indicated that he will work on converting other code using 
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC to instead consider debug_pagealloc_enabled(), so 
more work in this area will probably be forthcoming.