Hi! > By default, page poisoning uses a poison value (0xaa) on free. If this > is changed to 0, the page is not only sanitized but zeroing on alloc > with __GFP_ZERO can be skipped as well. The tradeoff is that detecting > corruption from the poisoning is harder to detect. This feature also > cannot be used with hibernation since pages are not guaranteed to be > zeroed after hibernation.
So... this makes kernel harder to debug for performance advantage...? If so.. how big is the performance advantage? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html