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Since commit 031bc5743f ("mm/debug-pagealloc: make debug-pagealloc
boottime configurable") CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is by default not adding
any page debugging.
This resulted in several unnoticed bugs, e.g.
https://lkml.kernel.org/g/<569F5E29.3090107@de.ibm.com>
or
https://lkml.kernel.org/g/<56A20F30.4050705@de.ibm.com>
as this behaviour change was not even documented in Kconfig.
Let's provide a new Kconfig symbol that allows to change the default
back to enabled, e.g. for debug kernels. This also makes the change
obvious to kernel packagers.
Let's also change the Kconfig description for CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, to
indicate that there are two stages of overhead.
Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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config PAGE_EXTENSION
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bool "Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page"
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---help---
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Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page. This
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could be used for debugging features that need to insert extra
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field for every page. This extension enables us to save memory
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by not allocating this extra memory according to boottime
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configuration.
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config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
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bool "Debug page memory allocations"
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depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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depends on !HIBERNATION || ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC && !PPC && !SPARC
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depends on !KMEMCHECK
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select PAGE_EXTENSION
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select PAGE_POISONING if !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
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---help---
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Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
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Depending on runtime enablement, this results in a small or large
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slowdown, but helps to find certain types of memory corruption.
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For architectures which don't enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
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fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
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the patterns before alloc_pages(). Additionally,
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this option cannot be enabled in combination with hibernation as
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that would result in incorrect warnings of memory corruption after
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a resume because free pages are not saved to the suspend image.
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By default this option will have a small overhead, e.g. by not
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allowing the kernel mapping to be backed by large pages on some
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architectures. Even bigger overhead comes when the debugging is
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enabled by DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT or the debug_pagealloc
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command line parameter.
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config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT
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bool "Enable debug page memory allocations by default?"
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default n
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depends on DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
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---help---
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Enable debug page memory allocations by default? This value
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can be overridden by debug_pagealloc=off|on.
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config PAGE_POISONING
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bool
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