Debug page memory allocations
configname: CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
Linux Kernel Configuration
└─>Debug page memory allocations
In linux kernel since version 2.6.12
Unmap pages from the kernel linear mapping after free_pages().
This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
of memory corruption.
For architectures which don't enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
the patterns before alloc_pages(). Additionally,
this option cannot be enabled in combination with hibernation as
that would result in incorrect warnings of memory corruption after
a resume because free pages are not saved to the suspend image.
This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
of memory corruption.
For architectures which don't enable ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
fill the pages with poison patterns after free_pages() and verify
the patterns before alloc_pages(). Additionally,
this option cannot be enabled in combination with hibernation as
that would result in incorrect warnings of memory corruption after
a resume because free pages are not saved to the suspend image.
depends
CONFIG_DEBUG_KERNELNOT CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
NOT CONFIG_HIBERNATION or CONFIG_ARCH_SUPPORTS_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
NOT CONFIG_PPC
NOT CONFIG_SPARC