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generic debug pagealloc

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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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Akinobu Mita
2009-03-31 15:23:17 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 610a77e04a
commit 6a11f75b6a
16 changed files with 202 additions and 19 deletions
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arch/powerpc/Kconfig.debug
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@ -30,6 +30,7 @@ config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE
config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
bool "Debug page memory allocations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !HIBERNATION
depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_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