diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug index aa99fd1f710..af7cfb43d2f 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.