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| author | Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com> | 2012-01-10 15:07:28 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2012-01-10 16:30:42 -0800 |
| commit | c0a32fc5a2e470d0b02597b23ad79a317735253e (patch) | |
| tree | 2d164edae0062918ca2088772c00b0615781353b /include/linux/page-debug-flags.h | |
| parent | 1399ff86f2a2bbacbbe68fa00c5f8c752b344723 (diff) | |
mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging
With CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC configured, the CPU will generate an exception
on access (read,write) to an unallocated page, which permits us to catch
code which corrupts memory. However the kernel is trying to maximise
memory usage, hence there are usually few free pages in the system and
buggy code usually corrupts some crucial data.
This patch changes the buddy allocator to keep more free/protected pages
and to interlace free/protected and allocated pages to increase the
probability of catching corruption.
When the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
debug_guardpage_minorder defines the minimum order used by the page
allocator to grant a request. The requested size will be returned with
the remaining pages used as guard pages.
The default value of debug_guardpage_minorder is zero: no change from
current behaviour.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation, s/flg/flag/]
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/page-debug-flags.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/page-debug-flags.h | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/page-debug-flags.h b/include/linux/page-debug-flags.h index b0638fd91e9..22691f61404 100644 --- a/include/linux/page-debug-flags.h +++ b/include/linux/page-debug-flags.h @@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ enum page_debug_flags { PAGE_DEBUG_FLAG_POISON, /* Page is poisoned */ + PAGE_DEBUG_FLAG_GUARD, }; /* @@ -21,7 +22,8 @@ enum page_debug_flags { */ #ifdef CONFIG_WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS -#if !defined(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING) \ +#if !defined(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING) && \ + !defined(CONFIG_PAGE_GUARD) \ /* && !defined(CONFIG_PAGE_DEBUG_SOMETHING_ELSE) && ... */ #error WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS is turned on with no debug features! #endif |