Commit 4a2f0acf authored by Andrew Morton's avatar Andrew Morton Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] kconfig: clarify memory debug options

The Kconfig text for CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC have always
seemed a bit confusing.  Change them to:

CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB: "Debug slab memory allocations"
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC: "Debug page memory allocations"

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
parent 33d8675e
......@@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ comment "Page alloc debug is incompatible with Software Suspend on i386"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
bool "Page alloc debugging"
bool "Debug page memory allocations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !SOFTWARE_SUSPEND && !HUGETLBFS
help
Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
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......@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
bool "Page alloc debugging"
bool "Debug page memory allocations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && BROKEN
help
Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
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......@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ config DEBUG_BOOTMEM
bool "Debug BOOTMEM initialization"
config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
bool "Page alloc debugging"
bool "Debug page memory allocations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
help
Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
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......@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ config SCHEDSTATS
this adds.
config DEBUG_SLAB
bool "Debug memory allocations"
bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
help
Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
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