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>

1 files changed, 30 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/page-debug-flags.h b/include/linux/page-debug-flags.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b0638fd91e92
--- /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 */