Re: debug kernels

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>]

On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 11:42:01PM +0000, Andrew Doran wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 03, 2010 at 01:24:07PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 11:10:29PM +0300, Mihai Chelaru wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > 
> > > Any reasons to keep options DEBUG, DIAGNOSTIC and KMEMSTATS enabled in
> > > XEN* kernels ? I think maybe it's time to ship no-debug kernels in our
> > > releases as XEN port became stable enough.
> > 
> > This has been usefull detecting bugs in the past, now that GENERIC
> > doesn't have DIAGNOSTIC any more.
> > 
> > I think HEAD kernel should be built with DIAGNOSTIC, and it should be
> > removed in release branches only.
> 
> We discussed this before on ICB.  People do benchmarks on -current.  Please
> don't add it to the i386/amd64 configs..

So DIAGNOSTIC code is never checked :( I think correct code is better
than fast code.
I'll leave it for Xen kernels then, it'll be tested there at last ...

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer%antioche.eu.org@localhost>
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