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authorAkinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>2009-03-31 15:23:17 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2009-04-01 08:59:13 -0700
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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>
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diff --git a/include/linux/poison.h b/include/linux/poison.h
index 9f31683728fd..6729f7dcd60e 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.