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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2021-01-20 14:35:31 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2021-01-20 14:35:31 -0300
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Merge remote-tracking branch 'torvalds/master' into perf/core
To pick up fixes. Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
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@@ -249,10 +249,8 @@ features; most of these are found in the "kernel hacking" submenu. Several
of these options should be turned on for any kernel used for development or
testing purposes. In particular, you should turn on:
- - ENABLE_MUST_CHECK and FRAME_WARN to get an
- extra set of warnings for problems like the use of deprecated interfaces
- or ignoring an important return value from a function. The output
- generated by these warnings can be verbose, but one need not worry about
+ - FRAME_WARN to get warnings for stack frames larger than a given amount.
+ The output generated can be verbose, but one need not worry about
warnings from other parts of the kernel.
- DEBUG_OBJECTS will add code to track the lifetime of various objects