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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-01-21 19:05:45 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2014-01-21 19:05:45 -0800 |
| commit | df32e43a54d04eda35d2859beaf90e3864d53288 (patch) | |
| tree | 7a61cf658b2949bd426285eb9902be7758ced1ba /lib/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | fbd918a2026d0464ce9c23f57b7de4bcfccdc2e6 (diff) | |
| parent | 78d5506e82b21a1a1de68c24182db2c2fe521422 (diff) | |
| download | cachepc-linux-df32e43a54d04eda35d2859beaf90e3864d53288.tar.gz cachepc-linux-df32e43a54d04eda35d2859beaf90e3864d53288.zip | |
Merge branch 'akpm' (incoming from Andrew)
Merge first patch-bomb from Andrew Morton:
- a couple of misc things
- inotify/fsnotify work from Jan
- ocfs2 updates (partial)
- about half of MM
* emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (117 commits)
mm/migrate: remove unused function, fail_migrate_page()
mm/migrate: remove putback_lru_pages, fix comment on putback_movable_pages
mm/migrate: correct failure handling if !hugepage_migration_support()
mm/migrate: add comment about permanent failure path
mm, page_alloc: warn for non-blockable __GFP_NOFAIL allocation failure
mm: compaction: reset scanner positions immediately when they meet
mm: compaction: do not mark unmovable pageblocks as skipped in async compaction
mm: compaction: detect when scanners meet in isolate_freepages
mm: compaction: reset cached scanner pfn's before reading them
mm: compaction: encapsulate defer reset logic
mm: compaction: trace compaction begin and end
memcg, oom: lock mem_cgroup_print_oom_info
sched: add tracepoints related to NUMA task migration
mm: numa: do not automatically migrate KSM pages
mm: numa: trace tasks that fail migration due to rate limiting
mm: numa: limit scope of lock for NUMA migrate rate limiting
mm: numa: make NUMA-migrate related functions static
lib/show_mem.c: show num_poisoned_pages when oom
mm/hwpoison: add '#' to hwpoison_inject
mm/memblock: use WARN_ONCE when MAX_NUMNODES passed as input parameter
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Diffstat (limited to 'lib/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 12 |
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 6982094a7e74..900b63c1e899 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -1584,8 +1584,16 @@ config DMA_API_DEBUG With this option you will be able to detect common bugs in device drivers like double-freeing of DMA mappings or freeing mappings that were never allocated. - This option causes a performance degredation. Use only if you want - to debug device drivers. If unsure, say N. + + This also attempts to catch cases where a page owned by DMA is + accessed by the cpu in a way that could cause data corruption. For + example, this enables cow_user_page() to check that the source page is + not undergoing DMA. + + This option causes a performance degradation. Use only if you want to + debug device drivers and dma interactions. + + If unsure, say N. source "samples/Kconfig" |
