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author | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-16 22:09:51 +0200 |
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committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2009-06-16 22:09:51 +0200 |
commit | b3fec0fe35a4ff048484f1408385a27695d4273b (patch) | |
tree | 088c23f098421ea681d9976a83aad73d15be1027 /lib | |
parent | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6 (diff) | |
parent | Merge commit 'linus/master' into HEAD (diff) | |
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Merge branch 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck
* 'for-linus2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/vegard/kmemcheck: (39 commits)
signal: fix __send_signal() false positive kmemcheck warning
fs: fix do_mount_root() false positive kmemcheck warning
fs: introduce __getname_gfp()
trace: annotate bitfields in struct ring_buffer_event
net: annotate struct sock bitfield
c2port: annotate bitfield for kmemcheck
net: annotate inet_timewait_sock bitfields
ieee1394/csr1212: fix false positive kmemcheck report
ieee1394: annotate bitfield
net: annotate bitfields in struct inet_sock
net: use kmemcheck bitfields API for skbuff
kmemcheck: introduce bitfield API
kmemcheck: add opcode self-testing at boot
x86: unify pte_hidden
x86: make _PAGE_HIDDEN conditional
kmemcheck: make kconfig accessible for other architectures
kmemcheck: enable in the x86 Kconfig
kmemcheck: add hooks for the page allocator
kmemcheck: add hooks for page- and sg-dma-mappings
kmemcheck: don't track page tables
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Diffstat (limited to 'lib')
-rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.debug | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck | 91 |
2 files changed, 95 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 116a35051be6..6b0c2d8a2129 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -300,7 +300,7 @@ config DEBUG_OBJECTS_ENABLE_DEFAULT config DEBUG_SLAB bool "Debug slab memory allocations" - depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && SLAB && !KMEMCHECK help Say Y here to have the kernel do limited verification on memory allocation as well as poisoning memory on free to catch use of freed @@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ config DEBUG_SLAB_LEAK config SLUB_DEBUG_ON bool "SLUB debugging on by default" - depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG + depends on SLUB && SLUB_DEBUG && !KMEMCHECK default n help Boot with debugging on by default. SLUB boots by default with @@ -996,3 +996,5 @@ config DMA_API_DEBUG source "samples/Kconfig" source "lib/Kconfig.kgdb" + +source "lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck" diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck b/lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..603c81b66549 --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/Kconfig.kmemcheck @@ -0,0 +1,91 @@ +config HAVE_ARCH_KMEMCHECK + bool + +menuconfig KMEMCHECK + bool "kmemcheck: trap use of uninitialized memory" + depends on DEBUG_KERNEL + depends on !X86_USE_3DNOW + depends on SLUB || SLAB + depends on !CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE + depends on !FUNCTION_TRACER + select FRAME_POINTER + select STACKTRACE + default n + help + This option enables tracing of dynamically allocated kernel memory + to see if memory is used before it has been given an initial value. + Be aware that this requires half of your memory for bookkeeping and + will insert extra code at *every* read and write to tracked memory + thus slow down the kernel code (but user code is unaffected). + + The kernel may be started with kmemcheck=0 or kmemcheck=1 to disable + or enable kmemcheck at boot-time. If the kernel is started with + kmemcheck=0, the large memory and CPU overhead is not incurred. + +choice + prompt "kmemcheck: default mode at boot" + depends on KMEMCHECK + default KMEMCHECK_ONESHOT_BY_DEFAULT + help + This option controls the default behaviour of kmemcheck when the + kernel boots and no kmemcheck= parameter is given. + +config KMEMCHECK_DISABLED_BY_DEFAULT + bool "disabled" + depends on KMEMCHECK + +config KMEMCHECK_ENABLED_BY_DEFAULT + bool "enabled" + depends on KMEMCHECK + +config KMEMCHECK_ONESHOT_BY_DEFAULT + bool "one-shot" + depends on KMEMCHECK + help + In one-shot mode, only the first error detected is reported before + kmemcheck is disabled. + +endchoice + +config KMEMCHECK_QUEUE_SIZE + int "kmemcheck: error queue size" + depends on KMEMCHECK + default 64 + help + Select the maximum number of errors to store in the queue. Since + errors can occur virtually anywhere and in any context, we need a + temporary storage area which is guarantueed not to generate any + other faults. The queue will be emptied as soon as a tasklet may + be scheduled. If the queue is full, new error reports will be + lost. + +config KMEMCHECK_SHADOW_COPY_SHIFT + int "kmemcheck: shadow copy size (5 => 32 bytes, 6 => 64 bytes)" + depends on KMEMCHECK + range 2 8 + default 5 + help + Select the number of shadow bytes to save along with each entry of + the queue. These bytes indicate what parts of an allocation are + initialized, uninitialized, etc. and will be displayed when an + error is detected to help the debugging of a particular problem. + +config KMEMCHECK_PARTIAL_OK + bool "kmemcheck: allow partially uninitialized memory" + depends on KMEMCHECK + default y + help + This option works around certain GCC optimizations that produce + 32-bit reads from 16-bit variables where the upper 16 bits are + thrown away afterwards. This may of course also hide some real + bugs. + +config KMEMCHECK_BITOPS_OK + bool "kmemcheck: allow bit-field manipulation" + depends on KMEMCHECK + default n + help + This option silences warnings that would be generated for bit-field + accesses where not all the bits are initialized at the same time. + This may also hide some real bugs. + |