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authorFrans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>2009-07-23 23:31:17 -0400
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2009-09-21 09:14:57 -0400
commit22f8b458223151272f6a1e57847b90979958cc7b (patch)
tree1ae3191ed13962493bc9b87ffb8aab1183ab5f1c /mm
parentbe3990b7efbe8784fe063fb6871a772c0703891a (diff)
trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
Improve the help text for PAGE_POISONING. Also fix some typos and improve consistency within the file. Signed-of-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/Kconfig.debug12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug
index aa99fd1f7109..af7cfb43d2f0 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
6 ---help--- 6 ---help---
7 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages(). 7 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
8 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types 8 This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
9 of memory corruptions. 9 of memory corruption.
10 10
11config WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS 11config WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS
12 bool 12 bool
@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@ config PAGE_POISONING
17 depends on !HIBERNATION 17 depends on !HIBERNATION
18 select DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 18 select DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
19 select WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS 19 select WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS
20 help 20 ---help---
21 Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify 21 Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
22 the patterns before alloc_pages(). This results in a large slowdown, 22 the patterns before alloc_pages(). This results in a large slowdown,
23 but helps to find certain types of memory corruptions. 23 but helps to find certain types of memory corruption.
24 24
25 This option cannot enalbe with hibernation. Otherwise, it will get 25 This option cannot be enabled in combination with hibernation as
26 wrong messages for memory corruption because the free pages are not 26 that would result in incorrect warnings of memory corruption after
27 saved to the suspend image. 27 a resume because free pages are not saved to the suspend image.