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authorFrans Pop <elendil@planet.nl>2009-07-24 05:31:17 +0200
committerJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>2009-09-21 15:14:57 +0200
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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: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/Kconfig.debug12
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug
index aa99fd1f7109..af7cfb43d2f0 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug
@@ -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.