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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.22.394.2103161105430.342782@gentwo.de>
Date:   Tue, 16 Mar 2021 11:07:36 +0100 (CET)
From:   Christoph Lameter <cl@...two.de>
To:     Yang Shi <shy828301@...il.com>
cc:     Roman Gushchin <guro@...com>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Xunlei Pang <xlpang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
        Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...dex-team.ru>,
        David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>,
        Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>,
        Shu Ming <sming56@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Linux MM <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
        Wen Yang <wenyang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        James Wang <jnwang@...ux.alibaba.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/4] mm/slub: Fix count_partial() problem

On Mon, 15 Mar 2021, Yang Shi wrote:

> > It seems like CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is a more popular option than CONFIG_SLUB_STATS.
> > CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is enabled on my Fedora workstation, CONFIG_SLUB_STATS is off.
> > I doubt an average user needs this data, so I'd go with CONFIG_SLUB_STATS.
>
> I think CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG is enabled by default on most distros since
> it is supposed not incur too much overhead unless specific debug (i.e.
> red_zone) is turned on on demand.

Correct. CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG includes the code so the debugging can be
enabled on Distro kernels with a kernel command line option. So you dont
have to recompile the kernel to find weird memory corruption issues from
strange device drivers.

Somehow my email address dropped off this thread.

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