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>
diff --git a/include/linux/poison.h b/include/linux/poison.h
index 9f31683..6729f7d 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.