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| author | Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> | 2009-03-31 15:23:17 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-04-01 08:59:13 -0700 |
| commit | 6a11f75b6a17b5d9ac5025f8d048382fd1f47377 (patch) | |
| tree | a3415cd897823975b927f89a233d2703bf97ba2b /include/linux/poison.h | |
| parent | 610a77e04a8d9fe8764dc484e2182fa251ce1cc2 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-6a11f75b6a17b5d9ac5025f8d048382fd1f47377.tar.gz lwn-6a11f75b6a17b5d9ac5025f8d048382fd1f47377.zip | |
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/poison.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/poison.h | 3 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 0 deletions
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. |