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linux/mm
Mel Gorman 6b74ab97bc 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>
2008-07-24 10:47:13 -07:00
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allocpercpu.c
backing-dev.c
bootmem.c
bounce.c
dmapool.c
fadvise.c
filemap_xip.c
filemap.c
fremap.c
highmem.c
hugetlb.c
internal.h
Kconfig
maccess.c
madvise.c
Makefile
memcontrol.c
memory_hotplug.c
memory.c
mempolicy.c
mempool.c
migrate.c
mincore.c
mlock.c
mm_init.c
mmap.c
mmzone.c
mprotect.c
mremap.c
msync.c
nommu.c
oom_kill.c
page_alloc.c mm: add a basic debugging framework for memory initialisation 2008-07-24 10:47:13 -07:00
page_io.c
page_isolation.c
page-writeback.c
pagewalk.c
pdflush.c
prio_tree.c
quicklist.c
readahead.c
rmap.c
shmem_acl.c
shmem.c
slab.c
slob.c
slub.c
sparse-vmemmap.c
sparse.c
swap_state.c
swap.c
swapfile.c
thrash.c
tiny-shmem.c
truncate.c
util.c
vmalloc.c
vmscan.c
vmstat.c