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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig.debug | 6 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug index e5e606ee5f71..9a7b8b049d04 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug @@ -46,7 +46,8 @@ config PAGE_POISONING Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify the patterns before alloc_pages. The filling of the memory helps reduce the risk of information leaks from freed data. This does - have a potential performance impact. + have a potential performance impact if enabled with the + "page_poison=1" kernel boot option. Note that "poison" here is not the same thing as the "HWPoison" for CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE. This is software poisoning only. @@ -65,7 +66,7 @@ config PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY say N. config PAGE_POISONING_ZERO - bool "Use zero for poisoning instead of random data" + bool "Use zero for poisoning instead of debugging value" depends on PAGE_POISONING ---help--- Instead of using the existing poison value, fill the pages with @@ -75,7 +76,6 @@ config PAGE_POISONING_ZERO allocation. If unsure, say N - bool config DEBUG_PAGE_REF bool "Enable tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation" |