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| author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-16 16:09:51 -0400 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-16 16:09:51 -0400 |
| commit | b3fec0fe35a4ff048484f1408385a27695d4273b (patch) | |
| tree | 088c23f098421ea681d9976a83aad73d15be1027 /lib | |
| parent | e1f5b94fd0c93c3e27ede88b7ab652d086dc960f (diff) | |
| parent | 722f2a6c87f34ee0fd0130a8cf45f81e0705594a (diff) | |
Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck: (39 commits)
signal: fix __send_signal() false positive kmemcheck warning
fs: fix do_mount_root() false positive kmemcheck warning
fs: introduce __getname_gfp()
trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_event
net: annotate struct sock bitfield
c2port: annotate bitfield for kmemcheck
net: annotate inet_timewait_sock bitfields
ieee1394/csr1212: fix false positive kmemcheck report
ieee1394: annotate bitfield
net: annotate bitfields in struct inet_sock
net: use kmemcheck bitfields API for skbuff
kmemcheck: introduce bitfield API
kmemcheck: add opcode self-testing at boot
x86: unify pte_hidden
x86: make _PAGE_HIDDEN conditional
kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures
kmemcheck: enable in the x86 Kconfig
kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator
kmemcheck: add hooks for page- and sg-dma-mappings
kmemcheck: don't track page tables
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Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 6 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck | 91 |
2 files changed, 95 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 116a35051be6..6b0c2d8a2129 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug | |||
| @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT | |||
| 300 | 300 | ||
| 301 | config DEBUG_SLAB | 301 | config DEBUG_SLAB |
| 302 | bool "Debug slab memory allocations" | 302 | bool "Debug slab memory allocations" |
| 303 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB | 303 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK |
| 304 | help | 304 | help |
| 305 | Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory | 305 | Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory |
| 306 | allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed | 306 | allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed |
| @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK | |||
| 312 | 312 | ||
| 313 | config SLUB_DEBUG_ON | 313 | config SLUB_DEBUG_ON |
| 314 | bool "SLUB debugging on by default" | 314 | bool "SLUB debugging on by default" |
| 315 | depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG | 315 | depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK |
| 316 | default n | 316 | default n |
| 317 | help | 317 | help |
| 318 | Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with | 318 | Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with |
| @@ -996,3 +996,5 @@ config DMA_API_DEBUG | |||
| 996 | source "samples/Kconfig" | 996 | source "samples/Kconfig" |
| 997 | 997 | ||
| 998 | source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" | 998 | source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" |
| 999 | |||
| 1000 | source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck" | ||
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck b/lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..603c81b66549 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck | |||
| @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ | |||
| 1 | config HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK | ||
| 2 | bool | ||
| 3 | |||
| 4 | menuconfig KMEMCHECK | ||
| 5 | bool "kmemcheck: trap use of uninitialized memory" | ||
| 6 | depends on DEBUG_KERNEL | ||
| 7 | depends on !X86_USE_3DNOW | ||
| 8 | depends on SLUB || SLAB | ||
| 9 | depends on !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE | ||
| 10 | depends on !FUNCTION_TRACER | ||
| 11 | select FRAME_POINTER | ||
| 12 | select STACKTRACE | ||
| 13 | default n | ||
| 14 | help | ||
| 15 | This option enables tracing of dynamically allocated kernel memory | ||
| 16 | to see if memory is used before it has been given an initial value. | ||
| 17 | Be aware that this requires half of your memory for bookkeeping and | ||
| 18 | will insert extra code at *every* read and write to tracked memory | ||
| 19 | thus slow down the kernel code (but user code is unaffected). | ||
| 20 | |||
| 21 | The kernel may be started with kmemcheck=0 or kmemcheck=1 to disable | ||
| 22 | or enable kmemcheck at boot-time. If the kernel is started with | ||
| 23 | kmemcheck=0, the large memory and CPU overhead is not incurred. | ||
| 24 | |||
| 25 | choice | ||
| 26 | prompt "kmemcheck: default mode at boot" | ||
| 27 | depends on KMEMCHECK | ||
| 28 | default KMEMCHECK_ONESHOT_BY_DEFAULT | ||
| 29 | help | ||
| 30 | This option controls the default behaviour of kmemcheck when the | ||
| 31 | kernel boots and no kmemcheck= parameter is given. | ||
| 32 | |||
| 33 | config KMEMCHECK_DISABLED_BY_DEFAULT | ||
| 34 | bool "disabled" | ||
| 35 | depends on KMEMCHECK | ||
| 36 | |||
| 37 | config KMEMCHECK_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT | ||
| 38 | bool "enabled" | ||
| 39 | depends on KMEMCHECK | ||
| 40 | |||
| 41 | config KMEMCHECK_ONESHOT_BY_DEFAULT | ||
| 42 | bool "one-shot" | ||
| 43 | depends on KMEMCHECK | ||
| 44 | help | ||
| 45 | In one-shot mode, only the first error detected is reported before | ||
| 46 | kmemcheck is disabled. | ||
| 47 | |||
| 48 | endchoice | ||
| 49 | |||
| 50 | config KMEMCHECK_QUEUE_SIZE | ||
| 51 | int "kmemcheck: error queue size" | ||
| 52 | depends on KMEMCHECK | ||
| 53 | default 64 | ||
| 54 | help | ||
| 55 | Select the maximum number of errors to store in the queue. Since | ||
| 56 | errors can occur virtually anywhere and in any context, we need a | ||
| 57 | temporary storage area which is guarantueed not to generate any | ||
| 58 | other faults. The queue will be emptied as soon as a tasklet may | ||
| 59 | be scheduled. If the queue is full, new error reports will be | ||
| 60 | lost. | ||
| 61 | |||
| 62 | config KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_COPY_SHIFT | ||
| 63 | int "kmemcheck: shadow copy size (5 => 32 bytes, 6 => 64 bytes)" | ||
| 64 | depends on KMEMCHECK | ||
| 65 | range 2 8 | ||
| 66 | default 5 | ||
| 67 | help | ||
| 68 | Select the number of shadow bytes to save along with each entry of | ||
| 69 | the queue. These bytes indicate what parts of an allocation are | ||
| 70 | initialized, uninitialized, etc. and will be displayed when an | ||
| 71 | error is detected to help the debugging of a particular problem. | ||
| 72 | |||
| 73 | config KMEMCHECK_PARTIAL_OK | ||
| 74 | bool "kmemcheck: allow partially uninitialized memory" | ||
| 75 | depends on KMEMCHECK | ||
| 76 | default y | ||
| 77 | help | ||
| 78 | This option works around certain GCC optimizations that produce | ||
| 79 | 32-bit reads from 16-bit variables where the upper 16 bits are | ||
| 80 | thrown away afterwards. This may of course also hide some real | ||
| 81 | bugs. | ||
| 82 | |||
| 83 | config KMEMCHECK_BITOPS_OK | ||
| 84 | bool "kmemcheck: allow bit-field manipulation" | ||
| 85 | depends on KMEMCHECK | ||
| 86 | default n | ||
| 87 | help | ||
| 88 | This option silences warnings that would be generated for bit-field | ||
| 89 | accesses where not all the bits are initialized at the same time. | ||
| 90 | This may also hide some real bugs. | ||
| 91 | |||
