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authorAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>2009-03-31 15:23:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-01 08:59:13 -0700
commit6a11f75b6a17b5d9ac5025f8d048382fd1f47377 (patch)
treea3415cd897823975b927f89a233d2703bf97ba2b /arch/sparc
parent610a77e04a8d9fe8764dc484e2182fa251ce1cc2 (diff)
downloadlinux-6a11f75b6a17b5d9ac5025f8d048382fd1f47377.tar.gz
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 <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/sparc')
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc/Kconfig3
-rw-r--r--arch/sparc/Kconfig.debug3
2 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
index c3ea215334f6..cc12cd48bbc5 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig
@@ -124,6 +124,9 @@ config ARCH_NO_VIRT_TO_BUS
 config OF
 	def_bool y
 
+config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+	def_bool y if SPARC64
+
 source "init/Kconfig"
 
 source "kernel/Kconfig.freezer"
diff --git a/arch/sparc/Kconfig.debug b/arch/sparc/Kconfig.debug
index b8a15e271bfa..d001b42041a5 100644
--- a/arch/sparc/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/sparc/Kconfig.debug
@@ -24,7 +24,8 @@ config STACK_DEBUG
 
 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
 	bool "Debug page memory allocations"
-	depends on SPARC64 && DEBUG_KERNEL && !HIBERNATION
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !HIBERNATION
+	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