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 --- include/linux/page-debug-flags.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+) create mode 100644 include/linux/page-debug-flags.h (limited to 'include/linux/page-debug-flags.h') diff --git a/include/linux/page-debug-flags.h b/include/linux/page-debug-flags.h new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..b0638fd91e9 --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/page-debug-flags.h @@ -0,0 +1,30 @@ +#ifndef LINUX_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS_H +#define LINUX_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS_H + +/* + * page->debug_flags bits: + * + * PAGE_DEBUG_FLAG_POISON is set for poisoned pages. This is used to + * implement generic debug pagealloc feature. The pages are filled with + * poison patterns and set this flag after free_pages(). The poisoned + * pages are verified whether the patterns are not corrupted and clear + * the flag before alloc_pages(). + */ + +enum page_debug_flags { + PAGE_DEBUG_FLAG_POISON, /* Page is poisoned */ +}; + +/* + * Ensure that CONFIG_WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS reliably + * gets turned off when no debug features are enabling it! + */ + +#ifdef CONFIG_WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS +#if !defined(CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING) \ +/* && !defined(CONFIG_PAGE_DEBUG_SOMETHING_ELSE) && ... */ +#error WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS is turned on with no debug features! +#endif +#endif /* CONFIG_WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS */ + +#endif /* LINUX_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS_H */ -- cgit v1.2.3