From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: yalin wang Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 2/3] mm/page_alloc.c: add config option to sanitize freed pages Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 09:58:01 +0800 Message-ID: References: <1431613188-4511-1-git-send-email-anisse@astier.eu> <1431613188-4511-3-git-send-email-anisse@astier.eu> <20150518112152.GA16999@amd> <20150518130213.GA771@amd> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-pm-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Anisse Astier Cc: Pavel Machek , Andrew Morton , Mel Gorman , "Kirill A. Shutemov" , David Rientjes , Alan Cox , Linus Torvalds , Peter Zijlstra , PaX Team , Brad Spengler , Kees Cook , Andi Kleen , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Len Brown , linux-mm@kvack.org, Linux PM list , Linux Kernel Mailing List List-Id: linux-mm.kvack.org 2015-05-18 21:04 GMT+08:00 Anisse Astier : > On Mon, May 18, 2015 at 3:02 PM, Pavel Machek wrote: >> >> Ok. So there is class of errors where this helps, but you are not >> aware of any such errors in kernel, so you can't fix them... Right? > > Correct. > -- > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ i feel your patch is the same as CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC , the difference is that CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC will clear page to a magic number, while your patch will clear to zero, do we really need this duplicated function ? Thanks