]> git.karo-electronics.de Git - karo-tx-linux.git/commit
mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging
authorStanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:11:29 +0000 (15:11 +1100)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Wed, 30 Nov 2011 04:13:49 +0000 (15:13 +1100)
commit9ccc2987288eaaeac3a84b8cbec1b48cdcb01c0f
tree31f5f0e5f536f5ff534dc73cabcbc1ff33ceb53f
parent13a2dbb1da92edbad71415b6ad72272b240fa200
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