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authorDenis Vlasenko <vda@port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>2004-10-17 03:03:11 +0200
committerSam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>2004-10-17 03:03:11 +0200
commit3c25e9e949ff6f266908a1ee4230061cdfb4438c (patch)
tree48937c6a926b49f4eb473fc7a0d4c6212e8b263e /lib
parent788c16bdd7f4b65cc27b43710a5be9d705b625e0 (diff)
downloadhistory-3c25e9e949ff6f266908a1ee4230061cdfb4438c.tar.gz
kconfig.debug: mention that DEBUG_SLAB can slow down machine quite a bit
I experienced x3 slowdown due to this option being set. Please add this small warning to DEBUG_SLAB help text. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
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1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
index cd5d8596223bca..d6f764a92e6746 100644
--- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ config DEBUG_SLAB
help
Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory
allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed
- memory.
+ memory. This can make kmalloc/kfree-intensive workloads much slower.
config DEBUG_SPINLOCK
bool "Spinlock debugging"