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 <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
index d84feb7..ddadb4d 100644
--- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
+++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
#include <linux/rwsem.h>
#include <linux/completion.h>
#include <linux/cpumask.h>
+#include <linux/page-debug-flags.h>
#include <asm/page.h>
#include <asm/mmu.h>
@@ -174,6 +175,9 @@
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
struct mempolicy *vm_policy; /* NUMA policy for the VMA */
#endif
+#ifdef CONFIG_WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS
+ unsigned long debug_flags; /* Use atomic bitops on this */
+#endif
};
struct core_thread {
diff --git a/include/linux/page-debug-flags.h b/include/linux/page-debug-flags.h
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..b0638fd
--- /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 */
diff --git a/include/linux/poison.h b/include/linux/poison.h
index 9f31683..6729f7d 100644
--- a/include/linux/poison.h
+++ b/include/linux/poison.h
@@ -17,6 +17,9 @@
*/
#define TIMER_ENTRY_STATIC ((void *) 0x74737461)
+/********** mm/debug-pagealloc.c **********/
+#define PAGE_POISON 0xaa
+
/********** mm/slab.c **********/
/*
* Magic nums for obj red zoning.