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Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 10:41:08 -0500 (EST)
From: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kmemcheck: Disable SLUB and SLAB debugging when kmemcheck
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2009, Pekka Enberg wrote:

> Enabling kmemcheck in Kconfig is a painful experience. Lets make it a
> tad bit easier by inverting the dependencies to SLUB and SLAB debugging.
> As kmemcheck is more powerful than slab debugging, disable the latter
> functionality if an user enables kmemcheck.

SLUB_DEBUG is fundamentally different from SLAB_DEBUG. It only includes
the code to be able to enable debugging at runtime. It does not enable
debugging.