From 6a11f75b6a17b5d9ac5025f8d048382fd1f47377 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Akinobu Mita Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:23:17 -0700 Subject: generic debug pagealloc CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is now supported by x86, powerpc, sparc64, and s390. This patch implements it for the rest of the architectures by filling the pages with poison byte patterns after free_pages() and verifying the poison patterns before alloc_pages(). This generic one cannot detect invalid page accesses immediately but invalid read access may cause invalid dereference by poisoned memory and invalid write access can be detected after a long delay. Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- arch/x86/Kconfig.debug | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/Kconfig.debug') diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug index fdb45df608b6..a345cb5447a8 100644 --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug @@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ config DEBUG_STACK_USAGE config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC bool "Debug page memory allocations" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + depends on ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC ---help--- Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages(). This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types -- cgit v1.2.1