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authorChangbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com>2019-03-06 00:46:19 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-03-06 06:07:18 +0100
commit8aa49762dba3e8ce9a52a9b6da221e61a0c6de08 (patch)
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parentmm/mmap.c: remove some redundancy in arch_get_unmapped_area_topdown() (diff)
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mm/page_owner: move config option to mm/Kconfig.debug
Move the PAGE_OWNER option from submenu "Compile-time checks and compiler options" to dedicated submenu "Memory Debugging". Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190120024254.6270-1-changbin.du@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Changbin Du <changbin.du@gmail.com> Acked-by: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/Kconfig.debug17
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig.debug b/mm/Kconfig.debug
index 9a7b8b049d04..e3df921208c0 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/mm/Kconfig.debug
@@ -39,6 +39,23 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT
Enable debug page memory allocations by default? This value
can be overridden by debug_pagealloc=off|on.
+config PAGE_OWNER
+ bool "Track page owner"
+ depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
+ select DEBUG_FS
+ select STACKTRACE
+ select STACKDEPOT
+ select PAGE_EXTENSION
+ help
+ This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
+ help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
+ feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
+ "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
+ a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
+ for user-space helper.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config PAGE_POISONING
bool "Poison pages after freeing"
select PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY if HIBERNATION