From 6b74ab97bc12ce74acec900f1d89a4aee2e4d70d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mel Gorman Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 21:26:49 -0700 Subject: 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 Cc: Christoph Lameter Cc: Andy Whitcroft Cc: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- lib/Kconfig.debug | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) (limited to 'lib') diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug index 882c51048993..e1d4764435ed 100644 --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug @@ -505,6 +505,18 @@ config DEBUG_WRITECOUNT If unsure, say N. +config DEBUG_MEMORY_INIT + bool "Debug memory initialisation" if EMBEDDED + default !EMBEDDED + help + Enable this for additional checks during memory initialisation. + The sanity checks verify aspects of the VM such as the memory model + and other information provided by the architecture. Verbose + information will be printed at KERN_DEBUG loglevel depending + on the mminit_loglevel= command-line option. + + If unsure, say Y + config DEBUG_LIST bool "Debug linked list manipulation" depends on DEBUG_KERNEL -- cgit v1.2.3