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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig.debug')
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1 files changed, 66 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug index 957d3da53..22f4cd96a 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC select PAGE_POISONING if !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC ---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 corruption. + Depending on runtime enablement, this results in a small or large + slowdown, but helps to find certain types of memory corruption. For architectures which don't enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify @@ -26,5 +26,69 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC that would result in incorrect warnings of memory corruption after a resume because free pages are not saved to the suspend image. + By default this option will have a small overhead, e.g. by not + allowing the kernel mapping to be backed by large pages on some + architectures. Even bigger overhead comes when the debugging is + enabled by DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT or the debug_pagealloc + command line parameter. + +config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT + bool "Enable debug page memory allocations by default?" + default n + depends on DEBUG_PAGEALLOC + ---help--- + Enable debug page memory allocations by default? This value + can be overridden by debug_pagealloc=off|on. + config PAGE_POISONING + bool "Poison pages after freeing" + select PAGE_EXTENSION + select PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY if HIBERNATION + ---help--- + Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify + the patterns before alloc_pages. The filling of the memory helps + reduce the risk of information leaks from freed data. This does + have a potential performance impact. + + Note that "poison" here is not the same thing as the "HWPoison" + for CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE. This is software poisoning only. + + If unsure, say N + +config PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY + depends on PAGE_POISONING + bool "Only poison, don't sanity check" + ---help--- + Skip the sanity checking on alloc, only fill the pages with + poison on free. This reduces some of the overhead of the + poisoning feature. + + If you are only interested in sanitization, say Y. Otherwise + say N. + +config PAGE_POISONING_ZERO + bool "Use zero for poisoning instead of random data" + depends on PAGE_POISONING + ---help--- + Instead of using the existing poison value, fill the pages with + zeros. This makes it harder to detect when errors are occurring + due to sanitization but the zeroing at free means that it is + no longer necessary to write zeros when GFP_ZERO is used on + allocation. + + Enabling page poisoning with this option will disable hibernation + + If unsure, say N bool + +config DEBUG_PAGE_REF + bool "Enable tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + depends on TRACEPOINTS + ---help--- + This is a feature to add tracepoint for tracking down page reference + manipulation. This tracking is useful to diagnose functional failure + due to migration failures caused by page reference mismatches. Be + careful when enabling this feature because it adds about 30 KB to the + kernel code. However the runtime performance overhead is virtually + nil until the tracepoints are actually enabled. |