kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck core

General description: kmemcheck is a patch to the linux kernel that
detects use of uninitialized memory. It does this by trapping every
read and write to memory that was allocated dynamically (e.g. using
kmalloc()). If a memory address is read that has not previously been
written to, a message is printed to the kernel log.

Thanks to Andi Kleen for the set_memory_4k() solution.

Andrew Morton suggested documenting the shadow member of struct page.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

[export kmemcheck_mark_initialized]
[build fix for setup_max_cpus]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>

1 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 18ef7ebf263..c5a08079ad5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -317,6 +317,15 @@ static inline int pte_present(pte_t a)
 	return pte_flags(a) & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_PROTNONE);
 }
 
+static inline int pte_hidden(pte_t x)
+{
+#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
+	return pte_flags(x) & _PAGE_HIDDEN;
+#else
+	return 0;
+#endif
+}
+
 static inline int pmd_present(pmd_t pmd)
 {
 	return pmd_flags(pmd) & _PAGE_PRESENT;