Commit 4a2f0acf0f951599fd9e4af95cf9483449970c26

Authored by Andrew Morton
Committed by Linus Torvalds
1 parent 33d8675ea6

[PATCH] kconfig: clarify memory debug options

The Kconfig text for CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB and CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC have always
seemed a bit confusing.  Change them to:

CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB: "Debug slab memory allocations"
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC: "Debug page memory allocations"

Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Showing 4 changed files with 4 additions and 4 deletions Side-by-side Diff

arch/i386/Kconfig.debug
... ... @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@
44 44 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
45 45  
46 46 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
47   - bool "Page alloc debugging"
  47 + bool "Debug page memory allocations"
48 48 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !SOFTWARE_SUSPEND && !HUGETLBFS
49 49 help
50 50 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
arch/m32r/Kconfig.debug
... ... @@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
19 19 This option will slow down process creation somewhat.
20 20  
21 21 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
22   - bool "Page alloc debugging"
  22 + bool "Debug page memory allocations"
23 23 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && BROKEN
24 24 help
25 25 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
arch/sparc64/Kconfig.debug
... ... @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
24 24 bool "Debug BOOTMEM initialization"
25 25  
26 26 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
27   - bool "Page alloc debugging"
  27 + bool "Debug page memory allocations"
28 28 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
29 29 help
30 30 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
... ... @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
78 78 this adds.
79 79  
80 80 config DEBUG_SLAB
81   - bool "Debug memory allocations"
  81 + bool "Debug slab memory allocations"
82 82 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB
83 83 help
84 84 Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory