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mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging
authorStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Fri, 2 Dec 2011 03:12:02 +0000 (14:12 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Mon, 5 Dec 2011 04:19:19 +0000 (15:19 +1100)
commit3e8f3b88688efb7db985f5ed52f09706098c9021
tree0c28b4ff13139127e8baf53f33cd7b1b6beb9e0d
parent5cc61f1140879b03f5861221c04264f2b90e8550
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.

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>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
include/linux/mm.h
include/linux/page-debug-flags.h
mm/Kconfig.debug
mm/page_alloc.c