From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: 2.6.0-test8-mm1 From: Robert Love In-Reply-To: <200310220053.13547.schlicht@uni-mannheim.de> References: <200310220053.13547.schlicht@uni-mannheim.de> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1066778844.768.348.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 19:27:25 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Thomas Schlichter Cc: James Simmons , Helge Hafting , Andrew Morton , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Tue, 2003-10-21 at 18:53, Thomas Schlichter wrote: > For me the big question stays why enabling the DEBUG_* options results in a > corrupt cursor and the false dots on the top of each row... (with both > kernels) Almost certainly due to CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB or CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, which debug memory allocations and frees. Code that commits the usual memory bugs (use-after-free, etc.) will quickly die with these set, whereas without them the bug might never manifest. Robert Love -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org