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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig.debug | 25 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug index 82b6a20898bd..0271b22e063f 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug @@ -21,7 +21,9 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC Also, the state of page tracking structures is checked more often as pages are being allocated and freed, as unexpected state changes often happen for same reasons as memory corruption (e.g. double free, - use-after-free). + use-after-free). The error reports for these checks can be augmented + with stack traces of last allocation and freeing of the page, when + PAGE_OWNER is also selected and enabled on boot. For architectures which don't enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify @@ -115,3 +117,24 @@ config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST depends on STRICT_KERNEL_RWX ---help--- This option enables a testcase for the setting rodata read-only. + +config GENERIC_PTDUMP + bool + +config PTDUMP_CORE + bool + +config PTDUMP_DEBUGFS + bool "Export kernel pagetable layout to userspace via debugfs" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + depends on DEBUG_FS + depends on GENERIC_PTDUMP + select PTDUMP_CORE + help + Say Y here if you want to show the kernel pagetable layout in a + debugfs file. This information is only useful for kernel developers + who are working in architecture specific areas of the kernel. + It is probably not a good idea to enable this feature in a production + kernel. + + If in doubt, say N. |
