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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 <mel@csn.ul.ie> Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by:
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by:
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 8 additions, 0 deletionsDocumentation/kernel-parameters.txt
- lib/Kconfig.debug 12 additions, 0 deletionslib/Kconfig.debug
- mm/Makefile 1 addition, 0 deletionsmm/Makefile
- mm/internal.h 27 additions, 0 deletionsmm/internal.h
- mm/mm_init.c 18 additions, 0 deletionsmm/mm_init.c
- mm/page_alloc.c 13 additions, 9 deletionsmm/page_alloc.c
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