From: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial@kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH] trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:31:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200907240531.18676.elendil@planet.nl> (raw)
Improve the help text for PAGE_POISONING.
Also fix some typos and improve consistency within the file.
Signed-of-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug
index aa99fd1..af7cfb4 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/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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2009-07-24 3:31 Frans Pop [this message]
2009-08-13 9:49 ` [PATCH] trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options Jiri Kosina
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