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diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug
index fa6d79281368..82b6a20898bd 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug
@@ -12,19 +12,23 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
bool "Debug page memory allocations"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
depends on !HIBERNATION || ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC && !PPC && !SPARC
- select PAGE_EXTENSION
select PAGE_POISONING if !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
---help---
Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
Depending on runtime enablement, this results in a small or large
slowdown, but helps to find certain types of memory corruption.
+ Also, the state of page tracking structures is checked more often as
+ pages are being allocated and freed, as unexpected state changes
+ often happen for same reasons as memory corruption (e.g. double free,
+ use-after-free).
+
For architectures which don't enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
- the patterns before alloc_pages(). Additionally,
- this option cannot be enabled in combination with hibernation as
- that would result in incorrect warnings of memory corruption after
- a resume because free pages are not saved to the suspend image.
+ the patterns before alloc_pages(). Additionally, this option cannot
+ be enabled in combination with hibernation as that would result in
+ incorrect warnings of memory corruption after a resume because free
+ pages are not saved to the suspend image.
By default this option will have a small overhead, e.g. by not
allowing the kernel mapping to be backed by large pages on some