mm: add a basic debugging framework for memory initialisation

Boot initialisation is very complex, with significant numbers of
architecture-specific routines, hooks and code ordering.  While significant
amounts of the initialisation is architecture-independent, it trusts the data
received from the architecture layer.  This is a mistake, and has resulted in
a number of difficult-to-diagnose bugs.

This patchset adds some validation and tracing to memory initialisation.  It
also introduces a few basic defensive measures.  The validation code can be
explicitly disabled for embedded systems.

This patch:

Add additional debugging and verification code for memory initialisation.

Once enabled, the verification checks are always run and when required
additional debugging information may be outputted via a mminit_loglevel=
command-line parameter.

The verification code is placed in a new file mm/mm_init.c.  Ideally other mm
initialisation code will be moved here over time.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Mel Gorman
2008-07-23 21:26:49 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 9483a578df
commit 6b74ab97bc
6 changed files with 79 additions and 9 deletions

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@@ -59,4 +59,31 @@ static inline unsigned long page_order(struct page *page)
#define __paginginit __init
#endif
/* Memory initialisation debug and verification */
enum mminit_level {
MMINIT_WARNING,
MMINIT_VERIFY,
MMINIT_TRACE
};
#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT
extern int mminit_loglevel;
#define mminit_dprintk(level, prefix, fmt, arg...) \
do { \
if (level < mminit_loglevel) { \
printk(level <= MMINIT_WARNING ? KERN_WARNING : KERN_DEBUG); \
printk(KERN_CONT "mminit::" prefix " " fmt, ##arg); \
} \
} while (0)
#else
static inline void mminit_dprintk(enum mminit_level level,
const char *prefix, const char *fmt, ...)
{
}
#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT */
#endif