On Wed, 17 Jul 2013, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 07/17/2013 02:09 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > > lock_page() is a pretty commonly called function, and I assume quite a > > lot of people run with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y. > > > > Is the overhead added by this patch really worthwhile? > > I always thought of it as a developer-only thing. I don't think any of > the big distros turn it on by default.
That's how I think of it too (and the problem is often that too few mm developers turn it on); but Dave Jones did confirm last November that Fedora turns it on. I believe Fedora turns it on to help us all, and wouldn't mind a mere VM_BUG_ON(PageTail(page)) in __lock_page() if it's helpful to Kirill. But if VM_BUG_ONs become expensive, I do think it's for Fedora to turn off CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, rather than for mm developers to avoid it. Hugh -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
