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authorJoonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>2014-12-12 16:55:49 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2014-12-13 12:42:48 -0800
commite30825f1869a75b29a69dc8e0aaaaccc492092cf (patch)
tree33adc902e098cf23d8a8b9d97ad01b1d06e28e93 /include/linux/page_ext.h
parenteefa864b701d78dc9753c70a3540a2e9ae192595 (diff)
mm/debug-pagealloc: prepare boottime configurable on/off
Until now, debug-pagealloc needs extra flags in struct page, so we need to recompile whole source code when we decide to use it. This is really painful, because it takes some time to recompile and sometimes rebuild is not possible due to third party module depending on struct page. So, we can't use this good feature in many cases. Now, we have the page extension feature that allows us to insert extra flags to outside of struct page. This gets rid of third party module issue mentioned above. And, this allows us to determine if we need extra memory for this page extension in boottime. With these property, we can avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime with low computational overhead in the kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. This will help our development process greatly. This patch is the preparation step to achive above goal. debug-pagealloc originally uses extra field of struct page, but, after this patch, it will use field of struct page_ext. Because memory for page_ext is allocated later than initialization of page allocator in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM, we should disable debug-pagealloc feature temporarily until initialization of page_ext. This patch implements this. Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org> Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net> Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com> Cc: Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/page_ext.h')
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1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/page_ext.h b/include/linux/page_ext.h
index 2ccc8b414e5c..61c0f05f9069 100644
--- a/include/linux/page_ext.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_ext.h
@@ -10,6 +10,21 @@ struct page_ext_operations {
#ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION
/*
+ * page_ext->flags bits:
+ *
+ * PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_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_ext_flags {
+ PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_POISON, /* Page is poisoned */
+ PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_GUARD,
+};
+
+/*
* Page Extension can be considered as an extended mem_map.
* A page_ext page is associated with every page descriptor. The
* page_ext helps us add more information about the page.