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Author SHA1 Message Date
Pekka Enberg
6d9609c132 kmemcheck: move 64-bit ifdef out of kmemcheck_opcode_decode()
This patch moves the CONFIG_X86_64 ifdef out of kmemcheck_opcode_decode() by
introducing a version of the function that always returns false for
CONFIG_X86_32.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 12:39:59 +02:00
Vegard Nossum
dfec072ecd kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck core
General description: kmemcheck is a patch to the linux kernel that
detects use of uninitialized memory. It does this by trapping every
read and write to memory that was allocated dynamically (e.g. using
kmalloc()). If a memory address is read that has not previously been
written to, a message is printed to the kernel log.

Thanks to Andi Kleen for the set_memory_4k() solution.

Andrew Morton suggested documenting the shadow member of struct page.

Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

[export kmemcheck_mark_initialized]
[build fix for setup_max_cpus]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
2009-06-13 15:37:30 +02:00