14 Jun, 2020
1 commit
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Since commit 84af7a6194e4 ("checkpatch: kconfig: prefer 'help' over
'---help---'"), the number of '---help---' has been gradually
decreasing, but there are still more than 2400 instances.This commit finishes the conversion. While I touched the lines,
I also fixed the indentation.There are a variety of indentation styles found.
a) 4 spaces + '---help---'
b) 7 spaces + '---help---'
c) 8 spaces + '---help---'
d) 1 space + 1 tab + '---help---'
e) 1 tab + '---help---' (correct indentation)
f) 1 tab + 1 space + '---help---'
g) 1 tab + 2 spaces + '---help---'In order to convert all of them to 1 tab + 'help', I ran the
following commend:$ find . -name 'Kconfig*' | xargs sed -i 's/^[[:space:]]*---help---/\thelp/'
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada
04 Jun, 2020
1 commit
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Patch series "Extract DEBUG_WX to shared use".
Some architectures support DEBUG_WX function, it's verbatim from each
others, so extract to mm/Kconfig.debug for shared use.PPC and ARM ports don't support generic page dumper yet, so we only
refine x86 and arm64 port in this patch series.For RISC-V port, the DEBUG_WX support depends on other patches which
be merged already:
- RISC-V page table dumper
- Support strict kernel memory permissions for securityThis patch (of 4):
Some architectures support DEBUG_WX function, it's verbatim from each
others. Extract to mm/Kconfig.debug for shared use.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: reword text, per Will Deacon & Zong Li]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200427194245.oxRJKj3fn%25akpm@linux-foundation.org
[zong.li@sifive.com: remove the specific name of arm64]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/3a6a92ecedc54e1d0fc941398e63d504c2cd5611.1589178399.git.zong.li@sifive.com
[zong.li@sifive.com: add MMU dependency for DEBUG_WX]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/4a674ac7863ff39ca91847b10e51209771f99416.1589178399.git.zong.li@sifive.com
Suggested-by: Palmer Dabbelt
Signed-off-by: Zong Li
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Paul Walmsley
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Will Deacon
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1587455584.git.zong.li@sifive.com
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/23980cd0f0e5d79e24a92169116407c75bcc650d.1587455584.git.zong.li@sifive.com
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Feb, 2020
1 commit
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Add a generic version of page table dumping that architectures can opt-in
to.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20191218162402.45610-20-steven.price@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Steven Price
Cc: Albert Ou
Cc: Alexandre Ghiti
Cc: Andy Lutomirski
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Cc: Borislav Petkov
Cc: Catalin Marinas
Cc: Christian Borntraeger
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: David S. Miller
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin"
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: James Hogan
Cc: James Morse
Cc: Jerome Glisse
Cc: "Liang, Kan"
Cc: Mark Rutland
Cc: Michael Ellerman
Cc: Paul Burton
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Paul Walmsley
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Ralf Baechle
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Thomas Gleixner
Cc: Vasily Gorbik
Cc: Vineet Gupta
Cc: Will Deacon
Cc: Zong Li
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
25 Sep, 2019
1 commit
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The debug_pagealloc functionality is useful to catch buggy page allocator
users that cause e.g. use after free or double free. When page
inconsistency is detected, debugging is often simpler by knowing the call
stack of process that last allocated and freed the page. When page_owner
is also enabled, we record the allocation stack trace, but not freeing.This patch therefore adds recording of freeing process stack trace to page
owner info, if both page_owner and debug_pagealloc are configured and
enabled. With only page_owner enabled, this info is not useful for the
memory leak debugging use case. dump_page() is adjusted to print the
info. An example result of calling __free_pages() twice may look like
this (note the page last free stack trace):BUG: Bad page state in process bash pfn:13d8f8
page:ffffc31984f63e00 refcount:-1 mapcount:0 mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x0
flags: 0x1affff800000000()
raw: 01affff800000000 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
raw: 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 ffffffffffffffff 0000000000000000
page dumped because: nonzero _refcount
page_owner tracks the page as freed
page last allocated via order 0, migratetype Unmovable, gfp_mask 0xcc0(GFP_KERNEL)
prep_new_page+0x143/0x150
get_page_from_freelist+0x289/0x380
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x13c/0x2d0
khugepaged+0x6e/0xc10
kthread+0xf9/0x130
ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
page last free stack trace:
free_pcp_prepare+0x134/0x1e0
free_unref_page+0x18/0x90
khugepaged+0x7b/0xc10
kthread+0xf9/0x130
ret_from_fork+0x3a/0x50
Modules linked in:
CPU: 3 PID: 271 Comm: bash Not tainted 5.3.0-rc4-2.g07a1a73-default+ #57
Hardware name: QEMU Standard PC (i440FX + PIIX, 1996), BIOS rel-1.12.1-0-ga5cab58-prebuilt.qemu.org 04/01/2014
Call Trace:
dump_stack+0x85/0xc0
bad_page.cold+0xba/0xbf
rmqueue_pcplist.isra.0+0x6c5/0x6d0
rmqueue+0x2d/0x810
get_page_from_freelist+0x191/0x380
__alloc_pages_nodemask+0x13c/0x2d0
__get_free_pages+0xd/0x30
__pud_alloc+0x2c/0x110
copy_page_range+0x4f9/0x630
dup_mmap+0x362/0x480
dup_mm+0x68/0x110
copy_process+0x19e1/0x1b40
_do_fork+0x73/0x310
__x64_sys_clone+0x75/0x80
do_syscall_64+0x6e/0x1e0
entry_SYSCALL_64_after_hwframe+0x49/0xbe
RIP: 0033:0x7f10af854a10
...Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190820131828.22684-5-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Jul, 2019
2 commits
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When debug_pagealloc is enabled, we currently allocate the page_ext
array to mark guard pages with the PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_GUARD flag. Now that
we have the page_type field in struct page, we can use that instead, as
guard pages are neither PageSlab nor mapped to userspace. This reduces
memory overhead when debug_pagealloc is enabled and there are no other
features requiring the page_ext array.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190603143451.27353-4-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The page allocator checks struct pages for expected state (mapcount,
flags etc) as pages are being allocated (check_new_page()) and freed
(free_pages_check()) to provide some defense against errors in page
allocator users.Prior commits 479f854a207c ("mm, page_alloc: defer debugging checks of
pages allocated from the PCP") and 4db7548ccbd9 ("mm, page_alloc: defer
debugging checks of freed pages until a PCP drain") this has happened
for order-0 pages as they were allocated from or freed to the per-cpu
caches (pcplists). Since those are fast paths, the checks are now
performed only when pages are moved between pcplists and global free
lists. This however lowers the chances of catching errors soon enough.In order to increase the chances of the checks to catch errors, the
kernel has to be rebuilt with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, which also enables
multiple other internal debug checks (VM_BUG_ON() etc), which is
suboptimal when the goal is to catch errors in mm users, not in mm code
itself.To catch some wrong users of the page allocator we have
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, which is designed to have virtually no overhead
unless enabled at boot time. Memory corruptions when writing to freed
pages have often the same underlying errors (use-after-free, double free)
as corrupting the corresponding struct pages, so this existing debugging
functionality is a good fit to extend by also perform struct page checks
at least as often as if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM was enabled.Specifically, after this patch, when debug_pagealloc is enabled on boot,
and CONFIG_DEBUG_VM disabled, pages are checked when allocated from or
freed to the pcplists *in addition* to being moved between pcplists and
free lists. When both debug_pagealloc and CONFIG_DEBUG_VM are enabled,
pages are checked when being moved between pcplists and free lists *in
addition* to when allocated from or freed to the pcplists.When debug_pagealloc is not enabled on boot, the overhead in fast paths
should be virtually none thanks to the use of static key.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190603143451.27353-3-vbabka@suse.cz
Signed-off-by: Vlastimil Babka
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Cc: Matthew Wilcox
Cc: Michal Hocko
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 May, 2019
1 commit
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Add SPDX license identifiers to all Make/Kconfig files which:
- Have no license information of any form
These files fall under the project license, GPL v2 only. The resulting SPDX
license identifier is:GPL-2.0-only
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
15 May, 2019
1 commit
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'default n' is the default value for any bool or tristate Kconfig
setting so there is no need to write it explicitly.Also since commit f467c5640c29 ("kconfig: only write '# CONFIG_FOO
is not set' for visible symbols") the Kconfig behavior is the same
regardless of 'default n' being present or not:...
One side effect of (and the main motivation for) this change is making
the following two definitions behave exactly the same:config FOO
boolconfig FOO
bool
default nWith this change, neither of these will generate a
'# CONFIG_FOO is not set' line (assuming FOO isn't selected/implied).
That might make it clearer to people that a bare 'default n' is
redundant.
...Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/c3385916-e4d4-37d3-b330-e6b7dff83a52@samsung.com
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
06 Mar, 2019
1 commit
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Move the PAGE_OWNER option from submenu "Compile-time checks and
compiler options" to dedicated submenu "Memory Debugging".Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190120024254.6270-1-changbin.du@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Changbin Du
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Masahiro Yamada
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Arnd Bergmann
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Aug, 2018
1 commit
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The Kconfig text for CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING doesn't mention that it has to
be enabled explicitly. This updates the documentation for that and adds a
note about CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING to the "page_poison" command line docs.
While here, change description of CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO too, as it's
not "random" data, but rather the fixed debugging value that would be used
when not zeroing. Additionally removes a stray "bool" in the Kconfig.Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180725223832.GA43733@beast
Signed-off-by: Kees Cook
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton
Cc: Jonathan Corbet
Cc: Laura Abbott
Cc: Naoya Horiguchi
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Nov, 2017
1 commit
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Fix up makefiles, remove references, and git rm kmemcheck.
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171007030159.22241-4-alexander.levin@verizon.com
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin
Cc: Steven Rostedt
Cc: Vegard Nossum
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Eric W. Biederman
Cc: Alexander Potapenko
Cc: Tim Hansen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 May, 2017
1 commit
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On SPARSEMEM systems page poisoning is enabled after buddy is up,
because of the dependency on page extension init. This causes the pages
released by free_all_bootmem not to be poisoned. This either delays or
misses the identification of some issues because the pages have to
undergo another cycle of alloc-free-alloc for any corruption to be
detected.Enable page poisoning early by getting rid of the PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_POISON
flag. Since all the free pages will now be poisoned, the flag need not
be verified before checking the poison during an alloc.[vinmenon@codeaurora.org: fix Kconfig]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490878002-14423-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1490358246-11001-1-git-send-email-vinmenon@codeaurora.org
Signed-off-by: Vinayak Menon
Acked-by: Laura Abbott
Tested-by: Laura Abbott
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Akinobu Mita
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
28 Feb, 2017
1 commit
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This patch makes arch-independent testcases for RODATA. Both x86 and
x86_64 already have testcases for RODATA, But they are arch-specific
because using inline assembly directly.And cacheflush.h is not a suitable location for rodata-test related
things. Since they were in cacheflush.h, If someone change the state of
CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA_TEST, It cause overhead of kernel build.To solve the above issues, write arch-independent testcases and move it
to shared location.[jinb.park7@gmail.com: fix config dependency]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170209131625.GA16954@pjb1027-Latitude-E5410
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170129105436.GA9303@pjb1027-Latitude-E5410
Signed-off-by: Jinbum Park
Acked-by: Kees Cook
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: H. Peter Anvin
Cc: Arjan van de Ven
Cc: Laura Abbott
Cc: Russell King
Cc: Valentin Rothberg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
13 Sep, 2016
1 commit
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PAGE_POISONING_ZERO disables zeroing new pages on alloc, they are
poisoned (zeroed) as they become available.
In the hibernate use case, free pages will appear in the system without
being cleared, left there by the loading kernel.This patch will make sure free pages are cleared on resume when
PAGE_POISONING_ZERO is enabled. We free the pages just after resume
because we can't do it later: going through any device resume code might
allocate some memory and invalidate the free pages bitmap.Thus we don't need to disable hibernation when PAGE_POISONING_ZERO is
enabled.Signed-off-by: Anisse Astier
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
18 Mar, 2016
1 commit
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CMA allocation should be guaranteed to succeed by definition, but,
unfortunately, it would be failed sometimes. It is hard to track down
the problem, because it is related to page reference manipulation and we
don't have any facility to analyze it.This patch adds tracepoints to track down page reference manipulation.
With it, we can find exact reason of failure and can fix the problem.
Following is an example of tracepoint output. (note: this example is
stale version that printing flags as the number. Recent version will
print it as human readable string.)-9018 [004] 92.678375: page_ref_set: pfn=0x17ac9 flags=0x0 count=1 mapcount=0 mapping=(nil) mt=4 val=1
-9018 [004] 92.678378: kernel_stack:
=> get_page_from_freelist (ffffffff81176659)
=> __alloc_pages_nodemask (ffffffff81176d22)
=> alloc_pages_vma (ffffffff811bf675)
=> handle_mm_fault (ffffffff8119e693)
=> __do_page_fault (ffffffff810631ea)
=> trace_do_page_fault (ffffffff81063543)
=> do_async_page_fault (ffffffff8105c40a)
=> async_page_fault (ffffffff817581d8)
[snip]
-9018 [004] 92.678379: page_ref_mod: pfn=0x17ac9 flags=0x40048 count=2 mapcount=1 mapping=0xffff880015a78dc1 mt=4 val=1
[snip]
...
...
-9131 [001] 93.174468: test_pages_isolated: start_pfn=0x17800 end_pfn=0x17c00 fin_pfn=0x17ac9 ret=fail
[snip]
-9018 [004] 93.174843: page_ref_mod_and_test: pfn=0x17ac9 flags=0x40068 count=0 mapcount=0 mapping=0xffff880015a78dc1 mt=4 val=-1 ret=1
=> release_pages (ffffffff8117c9e4)
=> free_pages_and_swap_cache (ffffffff811b0697)
=> tlb_flush_mmu_free (ffffffff81199616)
=> tlb_finish_mmu (ffffffff8119a62c)
=> exit_mmap (ffffffff811a53f7)
=> mmput (ffffffff81073f47)
=> do_exit (ffffffff810794e9)
=> do_group_exit (ffffffff81079def)
=> SyS_exit_group (ffffffff81079e74)
=> entry_SYSCALL_64_fastpath (ffffffff817560b6)This output shows that problem comes from exit path. In exit path, to
improve performance, pages are not freed immediately. They are gathered
and processed by batch. During this process, migration cannot be
possible and CMA allocation is failed. This problem is hard to find
without this page reference tracepoint facility.Enabling this feature bloat kernel text 30 KB in my configuration.
text data bss dec hex filename
12127327 2243616 1507328 15878271 f2487f vmlinux_disabled
12157208 2258880 1507328 15923416 f2f8d8 vmlinux_enabledNote that, due to header file dependency problem between mm.h and
tracepoint.h, this feature has to open code the static key functions for
tracepoints. Proposed by Steven Rostedt in following link.https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/12/9/699
[arnd@arndb.de: crypto/async_pq: use __free_page() instead of put_page()]
[iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com: fix build failure for xtensa]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak Kconfig text, per Vlastimil]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Acked-by: Michal Nazarewicz
Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Cc: Sergey Senozhatsky
Acked-by: Steven Rostedt
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
16 Mar, 2016
3 commits
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By default, page poisoning uses a poison value (0xaa) on free. If this
is changed to 0, the page is not only sanitized but zeroing on alloc
with __GFP_ZERO can be skipped as well. The tradeoff is that detecting
corruption from the poisoning is harder to detect. This feature also
cannot be used with hibernation since pages are not guaranteed to be
zeroed after hibernation.Credit to Grsecurity/PaX team for inspiring this work
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Kees Cook
Cc: Mathias Krause
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Jianyu Zhan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Page poisoning is currently set up as a feature if architectures don't
have architecture debug page_alloc to allow unmapping of pages. It has
uses apart from that though. Clearing of the pages on free provides an
increase in security as it helps to limit the risk of information leaks.
Allow page poisoning to be enabled as a separate option independent of
kernel_map pages since the two features do separate work. Because of
how hiberanation is implemented, the checks on alloc cannot occur if
hibernation is enabled. The runtime alloc checks can also be enabled
with an option when !HIBERNATION.Credit to Grsecurity/PaX team for inspiring this work
Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott
Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov"
Cc: Vlastimil Babka
Cc: Michal Hocko
Cc: Kees Cook
Cc: Mathias Krause
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Jianyu Zhan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Since commit 031bc5743f158 ("mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc
boottime configurable") CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is by default not adding
any page debugging.This resulted in several unnoticed bugs, e.g.
https://lkml.kernel.org/g/
or
https://lkml.kernel.org/g/as this behaviour change was not even documented in Kconfig.
Let's provide a new Kconfig symbol that allows to change the default
back to enabled, e.g. for debug kernels. This also makes the change
obvious to kernel packagers.Let's also change the Kconfig description for CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, to
indicate that there are two stages of overhead.Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Peter Zijlstra
Cc: Heiko Carstens
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Jan, 2015
1 commit
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These are obsolete since commit e30825f1869a ("mm/debug-pagealloc:
prepare boottime configurable") was merged. So remove them.[pebolle@tiscali.nl: find obsolete Kconfig options]
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Paul Bolle
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz
Cc: Jungsoo Son
Acked-by: David Rientjes
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
14 Dec, 2014
2 commits
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Until now, debug-pagealloc needs extra flags in struct page, so we need to
recompile whole source code when we decide to use it. This is really
painful, because it takes some time to recompile and sometimes rebuild is
not possible due to third party module depending on struct page. So, we
can't use this good feature in many cases.Now, we have the page extension feature that allows us to insert extra
flags to outside of struct page. This gets rid of third party module
issue mentioned above. And, this allows us to determine if we need extra
memory for this page extension in boottime. With these property, we can
avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime with low computational overhead in
the kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. This will help our
development process greatly.This patch is the preparation step to achive above goal. debug-pagealloc
originally uses extra field of struct page, but, after this patch, it will
use field of struct page_ext. Because memory for page_ext is allocated
later than initialization of page allocator in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM, we should
disable debug-pagealloc feature temporarily until initialization of
page_ext. This patch implements this.Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz
Cc: Jungsoo Son
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
When we debug something, we'd like to insert some information to every
page. For this purpose, we sometimes modify struct page itself. But,
this has drawbacks. First, it requires re-compile. This makes us
hesitate to use the powerful debug feature so development process is
slowed down. And, second, sometimes it is impossible to rebuild the
kernel due to third party module dependency. At third, system behaviour
would be largely different after re-compile, because it changes size of
struct page greatly and this structure is accessed by every part of
kernel. Keeping this as it is would be better to reproduce errornous
situation.This feature is intended to overcome above mentioned problems. This
feature allocates memory for extended data per page in certain place
rather than the struct page itself. This memory can be accessed by the
accessor functions provided by this code. During the boot process, it
checks whether allocation of huge chunk of memory is needed or not. If
not, it avoids allocating memory at all. With this advantage, we can
include this feature into the kernel in default and can avoid rebuild and
solve related problems.Until now, memcg uses this technique. But, now, memcg decides to embed
their variable to struct page itself and it's code to extend struct page
has been removed. I'd like to use this code to develop debug feature, so
this patch resurrect it.To help these things to work well, this patch introduces two callbacks for
clients. One is the need callback which is mandatory if user wants to
avoid useless memory allocation at boot-time. The other is optional, init
callback, which is used to do proper initialization after memory is
allocated. Detailed explanation about purpose of these functions is in
code comment. Please refer it.Others are completely same with previous extension code in memcg.
Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Johannes Weiner
Cc: Minchan Kim
Cc: Dave Hansen
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz
Cc: Jungsoo Son
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Joonsoo Kim
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
11 Jan, 2012
1 commit
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With CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC configured, the CPU will generate an exception
on access (read,write) to an unallocated page, which permits us to catch
code which corrupts memory. However the kernel is trying to maximise
memory usage, hence there are usually few free pages in the system and
buggy code usually corrupts some crucial data.This patch changes the buddy allocator to keep more free/protected pages
and to interlace free/protected and allocated pages to increase the
probability of catching corruption.When the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
debug_guardpage_minorder defines the minimum order used by the page
allocator to grant a request. The requested size will be returned with
the remaining pages used as guard pages.The default value of debug_guardpage_minorder is zero: no change from
current behaviour.[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation, s/flg/flag/]
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka
Cc: Mel Gorman
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki"
Cc: Christoph Lameter
Cc: Pekka Enberg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
23 Mar, 2011
1 commit
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Fix kconfig dependency warning to satisfy dependencies:
warning: (PAGE_POISONING) selects DEBUG_PAGEALLOC which has unmet
direct dependencies (DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC &&
(!HIBERNATION || !PPC && !SPARC) && !KMEMCHECK)Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Cc: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
21 Sep, 2009
1 commit
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Improve the help text for PAGE_POISONING.
Also fix some typos and improve consistency within the file.Signed-of-by: Frans Pop
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina
15 Jun, 2009
1 commit
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let it rip!
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum
03 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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This fixes a build failure with generic debug pagealloc:
mm/debug-pagealloc.c: In function 'set_page_poison':
mm/debug-pagealloc.c:8: error: 'struct page' has no member named 'debug_flags'
mm/debug-pagealloc.c: In function 'clear_page_poison':
mm/debug-pagealloc.c:13: error: 'struct page' has no member named 'debug_flags'
mm/debug-pagealloc.c: In function 'page_poison':
mm/debug-pagealloc.c:18: error: 'struct page' has no member named 'debug_flags'
mm/debug-pagealloc.c: At top level:
mm/debug-pagealloc.c:120: error: redefinition of 'kernel_map_pages'
include/linux/mm.h:1278: error: previous definition of 'kernel_map_pages' was here
mm/debug-pagealloc.c: In function 'kernel_map_pages':
mm/debug-pagealloc.c:122: error: 'debug_pagealloc_enabled' undeclared (first use in this function)by fixing
- debug_flags should be in struct page
- define DEBUG_PAGEALLOC config option for all architecturesSigned-off-by: Akinobu Mita
Reported-by: Alexander Beregalov
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Apr, 2009
1 commit
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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