From 22f8b458223151272f6a1e57847b90979958cc7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Frans Pop Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2009 05:31:17 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] 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 Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- mm/Kconfig.debug | 12 ++++++------ 1 file 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.