On 09/26/2018 12:38 AM, Michal Hocko wrote: > Why cannot you simply go with [no]vm_page_poison[=on/off]? I was trying to look to the future a bit, if we end up with five or six more other options we want to allow folks to enable/disable. I don't want to end up in a situation where we have a bunch of different knobs to turn all this stuff off at runtime. I'd really like to have one stop shopping so that folks who have a system that's behaving well and don't need any debugging can get some of their performance back. But, the *primary* thing we want here is a nice, quick way to turn as much debugging off as we can. A nice-to-have is a future-proof, slub-style option that will centralize things. Alex's patch fails at the primary goal, IMNHO because "vm_debug=-" is so weird. I'd much rather have "vm_debug=off" (the primary goal) and throw away the nice-to-have (future-proof fine-grained on/off). I think we can have both, but I guess the onus is on me to go and add a strcmp(..., "off"). :)
