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/s390/Kconfig.debug | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) (limited to 'arch/s390/Kconfig.debug') diff --git a/arch/s390/Kconfig.debug b/arch/s390/Kconfig.debug index 4599fa06bd8..7e297a3cde3 100644 --- a/arch/s390/Kconfig.debug +++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig.debug @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ source "lib/Kconfig.debug" 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 slowdown, but helps to find certain types of -- cgit v1.2.3