Re: add DIAGNOSTIC back to GENERIC/INSTALL

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

On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 02:06:34AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 07:49:43PM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
>  > > I'm not in favor of LOCKDEBUG by default, for reasons already stated 
> here.
>  > 
>  > Also, could LOCKDEBUG have ABI issues with modules ?
>  > I've only ever used LOCKDEBUG with non-MODULAR kernels ...
> 
> The whole reason LOCKDEBUG is abysmally slow is that it does crazy
> things to preserve the same ABI. Personally I think this is a poor
> tradeoff...

But if LOCKDEBUG changes the ABI, then you need a different set of modules.
not that I care much about modules (and especially having them independant
from the kernel) ...

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