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authorAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>2009-09-23 03:49:27 +0400
committerAnton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>2009-09-23 03:49:27 +0400
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Merge branch 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts: drivers/power/wm97xx_battery.c
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@@ -41,6 +41,8 @@ Possible debug options are
P Poisoning (object and padding)
U User tracking (free and alloc)
T Trace (please only use on single slabs)
+ O Switch debugging off for caches that would have
+ caused higher minimum slab orders
- Switch all debugging off (useful if the kernel is
configured with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON)
@@ -59,6 +61,14 @@ to the dentry cache with
slub_debug=F,dentry
+Debugging options may require the minimum possible slab order to increase as
+a result of storing the metadata (for example, caches with PAGE_SIZE object
+sizes). This has a higher liklihood of resulting in slab allocation errors
+in low memory situations or if there's high fragmentation of memory. To
+switch off debugging for such caches by default, use
+
+ slub_debug=O
+
In case you forgot to enable debugging on the kernel command line: It is
possible to enable debugging manually when the kernel is up. Look at the
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