From dfec072ecd35ba6ecad2d51dde325253ac9a2936 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vegard Nossum Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2008 00:51:41 +0200 Subject: kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck core General description: kmemcheck is a patch to the linux kernel that detects use of uninitialized memory. It does this by trapping every read and write to memory that was allocated dynamically (e.g. using kmalloc()). If a memory address is read that has not previously been written to, a message is printed to the kernel log. Thanks to Andi Kleen for the set_memory_4k() solution. Andrew Morton suggested documenting the shadow member of struct page. Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg [export kmemcheck_mark_initialized] [build fix for setup_max_cpus] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar [rebased for mainline inclusion] Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum --- arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h') diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h index 18ef7ebf263..c5a08079ad5 100644 --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h @@ -317,6 +317,15 @@ static inline int pte_present(pte_t a) return pte_flags(a) & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_PROTNONE); } +static inline int pte_hidden(pte_t x) +{ +#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK + return pte_flags(x) & _PAGE_HIDDEN; +#else + return 0; +#endif +} + static inline int pmd_present(pmd_t pmd) { return pmd_flags(pmd) & _PAGE_PRESENT; -- cgit v1.2.3