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mm: add a basic debugging framework for memory initialisation
authorMel Gorman <[email protected]>
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 04:26:49 +0000 (21:26 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Thu, 24 Jul 2008 17:47:13 +0000 (10:47 -0700)
commit6b74ab97bc12ce74acec900f1d89a4aee2e4d70d
treed9d7b522a4a8f5f605d2e0f7f7a1bcb9d5049a82
parent9483a578df27fe7603605d565eefe039c1ba5845
mm: add a basic debugging framework for memory initialisation

Boot initialisation is very complex, with significant numbers of
architecture-specific routines, hooks and code ordering.  While significant
amounts of the initialisation is architecture-independent, it trusts the data
received from the architecture layer.  This is a mistake, and has resulted in
a number of difficult-to-diagnose bugs.

This patchset adds some validation and tracing to memory initialisation.  It
also introduces a few basic defensive measures.  The validation code can be
explicitly disabled for embedded systems.

This patch:

Add additional debugging and verification code for memory initialisation.

Once enabled, the verification checks are always run and when required
additional debugging information may be outputted via a mminit_loglevel=
command-line parameter.

The verification code is placed in a new file mm/mm_init.c.  Ideally other mm
initialisation code will be moved here over time.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Andy Whitcroft <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
lib/Kconfig.debug
mm/Makefile
mm/internal.h
mm/mm_init.c [new file with mode: 0644]
mm/page_alloc.c
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