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Diffstat (limited to 'mm/Kconfig.debug')
| -rw-r--r-- | mm/Kconfig.debug | 18 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug index 957d3da53ddd..a0c136af9c91 100644 --- a/mm/Kconfig.debug +++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug @@ -16,8 +16,8 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC select PAGE_POISONING if !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC ---help--- Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages(). - This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types - of memory corruption. + Depending on runtime enablement, this results in a small or large + slowdown, but helps to find certain types of memory corruption. For architectures which don't enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify @@ -26,5 +26,19 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC 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 + architectures. Even bigger overhead comes when the debugging is + enabled by DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT or the debug_pagealloc + command line parameter. + +config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT + bool "Enable debug page memory allocations by default?" + default n + depends on DEBUG_PAGEALLOC + ---help--- + Enable debug page memory allocations by default? This value + can be overridden by debug_pagealloc=off|on. + config PAGE_POISONING bool |