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mm: improve help text for mm debug config options
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mm-improve-help-text-for-mm-debug-config-options.patch
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Subject: mm: improve help text for mm debug config options
From: Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx>
Improve the help text for PAGE_POISONING. Also fix some typos and improve
consistency within the file.
Signed-of-by: Frans Pop <elendil@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/Kconfig.debug | 12 ++++++------
1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
diff -puN mm/Kconfig.debug~mm-improve-help-text-for-mm-debug-config-options mm/Kconfig.debug
--- a/mm/Kconfig.debug~mm-improve-help-text-for-mm-debug-config-options
+++ a/mm/Kconfig.debug
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
---help---
Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
- of memory corruptions.
+ of memory corruption.
config WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS
bool
@@ -17,11 +17,11 @@ config PAGE_POISONING
depends on !HIBERNATION
select DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
select WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS
- help
+ ---help---
Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
the patterns before alloc_pages(). This results in a large slowdown,
- but helps to find certain types of memory corruptions.
+ but helps to find certain types of memory corruption.
- This option cannot enalbe with hibernation. Otherwise, it will get
- wrong messages for memory corruption because the free pages are not
- saved to the suspend image.
+ This option cannot be enabled in combination with hibernation as
+ that would result in incorrect warnings of memory corruption after
+ a resume because free pages are not saved to the suspend image.
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Patches currently in -mm which might be from elendil@xxxxxxxxx are
linux-next.patch
mm-improve-help-text-for-mm-debug-config-options.patch
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