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-rw-r--r--Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt12
-rw-r--r--include/linux/page-flags.h8
-rw-r--r--mm/debug.c46
-rw-r--r--mm/memblock.c5
-rw-r--r--mm/sparse.c4
5 files changed, 69 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
index 8022d902e770..dcd082576e79 100644
--- a/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -4839,6 +4839,18 @@
This is actually a boot loader parameter; the value is
passed to the kernel using a special protocol.
+ vm_debug[=options] [KNL] Available with CONFIG_DEBUG_VM=y.
+ May slow down system boot speed, especially when
+ enabled on systems with a large amount of memory.
+ All options are enabled by default, and this
+ interface is meant to allow for selectively
+ enabling or disabling specific virtual memory
+ debugging features.
+
+ Available options are:
+ P Enable page structure init time poisoning
+ - Disable all of the above options
+
vmalloc=nn[KMG] [KNL,BOOT] Forces the vmalloc area to have an exact
size of <nn>. This can be used to increase the
minimum size (128MB on x86). It can also be used to
diff --git a/include/linux/page-flags.h b/include/linux/page-flags.h
index 4d99504f6496..934f91ef3f54 100644
--- a/include/linux/page-flags.h
+++ b/include/linux/page-flags.h
@@ -163,6 +163,14 @@ static inline int PagePoisoned(const struct page *page)
return page->flags == PAGE_POISON_PATTERN;
}
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
+void page_init_poison(struct page *page, size_t size);
+#else
+static inline void page_init_poison(struct page *page, size_t size)
+{
+}
+#endif
+
/*
* Page flags policies wrt compound pages
*
diff --git a/mm/debug.c b/mm/debug.c
index bd10aad8539a..cdacba12e09a 100644
--- a/mm/debug.c
+++ b/mm/debug.c
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@
#include <trace/events/mmflags.h>
#include <linux/migrate.h>
#include <linux/page_owner.h>
+#include <linux/ctype.h>
#include "internal.h"
@@ -175,4 +176,49 @@ void dump_mm(const struct mm_struct *mm)
);
}
+static bool page_init_poisoning __read_mostly = true;
+
+static int __init setup_vm_debug(char *str)
+{
+ bool __page_init_poisoning = true;
+
+ /*
+ * Calling vm_debug with no arguments is equivalent to requesting
+ * to enable all debugging options we can control.
+ */
+ if (*str++ != '=' || !*str)
+ goto out;
+
+ __page_init_poisoning = false;
+ if (*str == '-')
+ goto out;
+
+ while (*str) {
+ switch (tolower(*str)) {
+ case'p':
+ __page_init_poisoning = true;
+ break;
+ default:
+ pr_err("vm_debug option '%c' unknown. skipped\n",
+ *str);
+ }
+
+ str++;
+ }
+out:
+ if (page_init_poisoning && !__page_init_poisoning)
+ pr_warn("Page struct poisoning disabled by kernel command line option 'vm_debug'\n");
+
+ page_init_poisoning = __page_init_poisoning;
+
+ return 1;
+}
+__setup("vm_debug", setup_vm_debug);
+
+void page_init_poison(struct page *page, size_t size)
+{
+ if (page_init_poisoning)
+ memset(page, PAGE_POISON_PATTERN, size);
+}
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(page_init_poison);
#endif /* CONFIG_DEBUG_VM */
diff --git a/mm/memblock.c b/mm/memblock.c
index 237944479d25..a85315083b5a 100644
--- a/mm/memblock.c
+++ b/mm/memblock.c
@@ -1444,10 +1444,9 @@ void * __init memblock_virt_alloc_try_nid_raw(
ptr = memblock_virt_alloc_internal(size, align,
min_addr, max_addr, nid);
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
if (ptr && size > 0)
- memset(ptr, PAGE_POISON_PATTERN, size);
-#endif
+ page_init_poison(ptr, size);
+
return ptr;
}
diff --git a/mm/sparse.c b/mm/sparse.c
index 10b07eea9a6e..67ad061f7fb8 100644
--- a/mm/sparse.c
+++ b/mm/sparse.c
@@ -696,13 +696,11 @@ int __meminit sparse_add_one_section(struct pglist_data *pgdat,
goto out;
}
-#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
/*
* Poison uninitialized struct pages in order to catch invalid flags
* combinations.
*/
- memset(memmap, PAGE_POISON_PATTERN, sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION);
-#endif
+ page_init_poison(memmap, sizeof(struct page) * PAGES_PER_SECTION);
section_mark_present(ms);
sparse_init_one_section(ms, section_nr, memmap, usemap);