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Re: Additional kmem_alloc debugging
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:36:44AM +0000, Mindaugas Rasiukevicius wrote:
> How about adding KMEMORY_DEBUG or similar option?
DEBUG plus the run time setting already covers it. It's not enough?
> > The above tells it to queue up to 60000 pages of unmapped KVA to catch
> > use-after-free type errors. Memory backing a freed item is unmapped and the
> > kernel VA space pushed onto a FIFO. The VA space will not be reused until
> > another 30k items have been freed. Until reused the kernel can catch invalid
> > acceses and panic with a page fault.
>
> How about adding uvm_kmguard_flush(), which would allow to free all pages in
> the FIFO list? I think it might be useful.
Where would this be called from? I could see it being used in the pagedaemon
but it really should get preference over other allocations.
Thanks,
Andrew
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