Re: CONFIG_PROVE_RCU breaks proprietary modules (rcu_lock_map)

[Kyle McMartin]

On Sun, Jun 20, 2010 at 08:16:05AM -0700, Paul E. McKenney wrote:
> My kneejerk reaction is that PROVE_RCU is a developer tool, so I am
> OK with it not being set by default in Rawhide.  Or have you seen good
> value from (say) PROVE_LOCKING in Rawhide?
> 

Hi Paul,

I'm fine with this, we try to enable debug options in rawhide in order
to get the most out of bug reports/dmesgs that we can. We've definitely
spotted a lot of lockdep reports by having it enabled for general
desktop use cases (but as debugging has become more intensive, the perf
loss from having it enabled is more costly.)

I suspect we'll be OK with PROVE_RCU off though.

Thanks!

regards, Kyle
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