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2009-06-15kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocatorVegard Nossum
This adds support for tracking the initializedness of memory that was allocated with the page allocator. Highmem requests are not tracked. Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> [build fix for !CONFIG_KMEMCHECK] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-13kmemcheck: include module.h to prevent warningsRandy Dunlap
kmemcheck/shadow.c needs to include <linux/module.h> to prevent the following warnings: linux-next-20080724/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/shadow.c:64: warning : data definition has no type or storage class linux-next-20080724/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/shadow.c:64: warning : type defaults to 'int' in declaration of 'EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL' linux-next-20080724/arch/x86/mm/kmemcheck/shadow.c:64: warning : parameter names (without types) in function declaration Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: vegardno@ifi.uio.no Cc: penberg@cs.helsinki.fi Cc: akpm <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-13kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck coreVegard Nossum
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>