Commit 22f8b458 authored by Frans Pop's avatar Frans Pop Committed by Jiri Kosina
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trivial: improve help text for mm debug config options 



Improve the help text for PAGE_POISONING.
Also fix some typos and improve consistency within the file.

Signed-of-by: default avatarFrans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>

Signed-off-by: default avatarJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
parent be3990b7

mm/Kconfig.debug

+6 −6
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@@ -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.