Re: [PATCH] mm,x86: remove debug_pagealloc_enabled

From: Mel Gorman
Date: Fri Nov 18 2011 - 08:37:07 EST


On Wed, Nov 16, 2011 at 04:43:52PM +0100, Stanislaw Gruszka wrote:
> When (no)bootmem finish operation, it pass pages to buddy allocator.
> Since debug_pagealloc_enabled is not set, we will do not protect pages,
> what is not what we want with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y.
>
> To fix remove debug_pagealloc_enabled. That variable was introduced by
> commit 12d6f21e "x86: do not PSE on CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC=y" to get
> more CPA (change page attribude) code testing. But currently we have
> CONFIG_CPA_DEBUG, which test CPA.
>
> Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@xxxxxxxxxx>

If no one objects to the impact on CPA testing, I see no problem with
this. I would assume that many bugs related to CPA would be rattled out
by now

Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxx>

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Mel Gorman
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