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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig.debug | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..c8d62d49a44 --- /dev/null +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +config WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS + bool + +config PAGE_POISONING + bool "Debug page memory allocations" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC + depends on !HIBERNATION + select DEBUG_PAGEALLOC + select WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS + help + Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify + the patterns before alloc_pages(). This results in a large slowdown, + but helps to find certain types of memory corruptions. + + This option cannot enalbe with hibernation. Otherwise, it will get + wrong messages for memory corruption because the free pages are not + saved to the suspend image. |