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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig.debug | 25 |
1 files changed, 24 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug index a0c136af9c91..1f99f9a0deae 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug @@ -41,4 +41,27 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT can be overridden by debug_pagealloc=off|on. config PAGE_POISONING - bool + bool "Poison pages after freeing" + select PAGE_EXTENSION + select PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY if HIBERNATION + ---help--- + Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify + the patterns before alloc_pages. The filling of the memory helps + reduce the risk of information leaks from freed data. This does + have a potential performance impact. + + Note that "poison" here is not the same thing as the "HWPoison" + for CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE. This is software poisoning only. + + If unsure, say N + +config PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY + depends on PAGE_POISONING + bool "Only poison, don't sanity check" + ---help--- + Skip the sanity checking on alloc, only fill the pages with + poison on free. This reduces some of the overhead of the + poisoning feature. + + If you are only interested in sanitization, say Y. Otherwise + say N. |