2 bool "Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page"
4 Extend memmap on extra space for more information on page. This
5 could be used for debugging features that need to insert extra
6 field for every page. This extension enables us to save memory
7 by not allocating this extra memory according to boottime
10 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
11 bool "Debug page memory allocations"
12 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
13 depends on !HIBERNATION || ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC && !PPC && !SPARC
15 select PAGE_POISONING if !ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
17 Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
18 Depending on runtime enablement, this results in a small or large
19 slowdown, but helps to find certain types of memory corruption.
21 For architectures which don't enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
22 fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
23 the patterns before alloc_pages(). Additionally,
24 this option cannot be enabled in combination with hibernation as
25 that would result in incorrect warnings of memory corruption after
26 a resume because free pages are not saved to the suspend image.
28 By default this option will have a small overhead, e.g. by not
29 allowing the kernel mapping to be backed by large pages on some
30 architectures. Even bigger overhead comes when the debugging is
31 enabled by DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT or the debug_pagealloc
32 command line parameter.
34 config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC_ENABLE_DEFAULT
35 bool "Enable debug page memory allocations by default?"
37 depends on DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
39 Enable debug page memory allocations by default? This value
40 can be overridden by debug_pagealloc=off|on.
43 bool "Track page owner"
44 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && STACKTRACE_SUPPORT
50 This keeps track of what call chain is the owner of a page, may
51 help to find bare alloc_page(s) leaks. Even if you include this
52 feature on your build, it is disabled in default. You should pass
53 "page_owner=on" to boot parameter in order to enable it. Eats
54 a fair amount of memory if enabled. See tools/vm/page_owner_sort.c
55 for user-space helper.
60 bool "Poison pages after freeing"
61 select PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY if HIBERNATION
63 Fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
64 the patterns before alloc_pages. The filling of the memory helps
65 reduce the risk of information leaks from freed data. This does
66 have a potential performance impact if enabled with the
67 "page_poison=1" kernel boot option.
69 Note that "poison" here is not the same thing as the "HWPoison"
70 for CONFIG_MEMORY_FAILURE. This is software poisoning only.
74 config PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY
75 depends on PAGE_POISONING
76 bool "Only poison, don't sanity check"
78 Skip the sanity checking on alloc, only fill the pages with
79 poison on free. This reduces some of the overhead of the
82 If you are only interested in sanitization, say Y. Otherwise
85 config PAGE_POISONING_ZERO
86 bool "Use zero for poisoning instead of debugging value"
87 depends on PAGE_POISONING
89 Instead of using the existing poison value, fill the pages with
90 zeros. This makes it harder to detect when errors are occurring
91 due to sanitization but the zeroing at free means that it is
92 no longer necessary to write zeros when GFP_ZERO is used on
98 bool "Enable tracepoint to track down page reference manipulation"
99 depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
100 depends on TRACEPOINTS
102 This is a feature to add tracepoint for tracking down page reference
103 manipulation. This tracking is useful to diagnose functional failure
104 due to migration failures caused by page reference mismatches. Be
105 careful when enabling this feature because it adds about 30 KB to the
106 kernel code. However the runtime performance overhead is virtually
107 nil until the tracepoints are actually enabled.
109 config DEBUG_RODATA_TEST
110 bool "Testcase for the marking rodata read-only"
111 depends on STRICT_KERNEL_RWX
113 This option enables a testcase for the setting rodata read-only.