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