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authorAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>2009-03-31 15:23:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-01 08:59:13 -0700
commit6a11f75b6a17b5d9ac5025f8d048382fd1f47377 (patch)
treea3415cd897823975b927f89a233d2703bf97ba2b /mm/Kconfig.debug
parent610a77e04a8d9fe8764dc484e2182fa251ce1cc2 (diff)
downloadlinux-6a11f75b6a17b5d9ac5025f8d048382fd1f47377.tar.bz2
generic debug pagealloc
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is now supported by x86, powerpc, sparc64, and s390. This patch implements it for the rest of the architectures by filling the pages with poison byte patterns after free_pages() and verifying the poison patterns before alloc_pages(). This generic one cannot detect invalid page accesses immediately but invalid read access may cause invalid dereference by poisoned memory and invalid write access can be detected after a long delay. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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+config WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS
+ bool
+
+config PAGE_POISONING
+ bool "Debug page memory allocations"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+ depends on !HIBERNATION
+ select DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+ select WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS
+ 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.
+
+ 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.