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| author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-07 13:47:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2009-04-07 13:47:45 +0200 |
| commit | 93776a8ec746cf9d32c36e5a5b23d28d8be28826 (patch) | |
| tree | 6c472ae9f709246ee5268e1d71559d07839fb965 /mm/Kconfig.debug | |
| parent | 34886c8bc590f078d4c0b88f50d061326639198d (diff) | |
| parent | d508afb437daee7cf07da085b635c44a4ebf9b38 (diff) | |
Merge branch 'linus' into tracing/core
Merge reason: update to upstream tracing facilities
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig.debug | 26 |
1 files changed, 26 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..bb01e298f260 --- /dev/null +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug @@ -0,0 +1,26 @@ +config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC + bool "Debug page memory allocations" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC + depends on !HIBERNATION || !PPC && !SPARC + ---help--- + Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages(). + This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types + of memory corruptions. + +config WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS + bool + +config PAGE_POISONING + bool "Debug page memory allocations" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC + depends on !HIBERNATION + select DEBUG_PAGEALLOC + select WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS + help + Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify + the patterns before alloc_pages(). This results in a large slowdown, + but helps to find certain types of memory corruptions. + + This option cannot enalbe with hibernation. Otherwise, it will get + wrong messages for memory corruption because the free pages are not + saved to the suspend image. |