RE: Bridge issue #3! dma_alloc_coherent causing crash - pm branch

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Kevin,
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Menon, Nishanth 
> Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 1:35 PM
> To: Kevin Hilman
> Cc: linux-omap@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Gupta, Ramesh
> Subject: RE: Bridge issue #3! dma_alloc_coherent causing 
> crash - pm branch
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Kevin Hilman [mailto:khilman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> > Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 2:35 AM
> 
> 
> > Sounds like a memory leak in the bridge driver to me.  I 
> suggest you 
> > enable memory leak debugging.  In Kconfig
> > 
> >    Kernel Hacking -->  Kernel debugging
> > 
> > Enable 'Debug slab memory allocations' and its child 'Memory leak 
> > debugging'.
> > 
> > Or, you could switch to the SLUB allocator which has some more 
> > flexible debug options which can be controlled at boot-time 
> from the cmdline.
> > 
> > While you are in the Kernel debugging menu, make sure you enable 
> > 'Verbose BUG()' and 'Verbose kernel errors'.  This will ensure that 
> > any memory leaks will be dumped with some extra debug output.

I enabled all the above options, do I need to add some boot options to enable 
Debug messages? I am not seeing any debug information displayed in the cosole by default.
Looks like I am mising some thing :( . Any comments?

Thanks
Ramesh Gupta G
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