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Pekka Enberg
c0ca9da442 x86, kmemcheck: Use KERN_WARNING for error reporting
As suggested by Vegard Nossum, use KERN_WARNING for error
reporting to make sure kmemcheck reports end up in syslog.

Suggested-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
LKML-Reference: <1261990935.4641.7.camel@penberg-laptop>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-12-28 10:28:35 +01:00
Pekka Enberg
6a19638719 kmemcheck: remove forward declarations from error.c
This patch reorders code in error.c so that we can get rid of the forward
declarations.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
2009-06-15 12:39:47 +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