From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] generic debug pagealloc
Date: Tue, 3 Mar 2009 17:05:03 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090303160503.GA6538@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090303160103.GB5812@localhost.localdomain>
* Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> wrote:
> CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is now supported by x86, powerpc, sparc
> (64bit), 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 read accesses and it
> can only detect invalid write accesses after a long delay. But
> it is an feasible way for nommu architectures.
if every architecture supports it now then i guess this config
switch can go away:
> +config ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> + def_bool y
Ingo
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-03 16:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-03 16:01 Akinobu Mita
2009-03-03 16:05 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-03-04 14:12 ` Akinobu Mita
2009-03-03 16:12 ` Jiri Slaby
2009-03-04 14:13 ` Akinobu Mita
2009-03-03 21:36 ` Andrew Morton
2009-03-03 22:07 ` Russell King
2009-03-04 14:17 ` Akinobu Mita
2009-03-06 9:14 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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