mm: more intensive memory corruption debugging

With CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC configured, the CPU will generate an exception
on access (read,write) to an unallocated page, which permits us to catch
code which corrupts memory.  However the kernel is trying to maximise
memory usage, hence there are usually few free pages in the system and
buggy code usually corrupts some crucial data.

This patch changes the buddy allocator to keep more free/protected pages
and to interlace free/protected and allocated pages to increase the
probability of catching corruption.

When the kernel is compiled with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC,
debug_guardpage_minorder defines the minimum order used by the page
allocator to grant a request.  The requested size will be returned with
the remaining pages used as guard pages.

The default value of debug_guardpage_minorder is zero: no change from
current behaviour.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak documentation, s/flg/flag/]
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 69 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 3cba4b6..93baebc 100644
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -57,6 +57,7 @@
 #include <linux/ftrace_event.h>
 #include <linux/memcontrol.h>
 #include <linux/prefetch.h>
+#include <linux/page-debug-flags.h>
 
 #include <asm/tlbflush.h>
 #include <asm/div64.h>
@@ -388,6 +389,37 @@ static inline void prep_zero_page(struct page *page, int order, gfp_t gfp_flags)
 		clear_highpage(page + i);
 }
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+unsigned int _debug_guardpage_minorder;
+
+static int __init debug_guardpage_minorder_setup(char *buf)
+{
+	unsigned long res;
+
+	if (kstrtoul(buf, 10, &res) < 0 ||  res > MAX_ORDER / 2) {
+		printk(KERN_ERR "Bad debug_guardpage_minorder value\n");
+		return 0;
+	}
+	_debug_guardpage_minorder = res;
+	printk(KERN_INFO "Setting debug_guardpage_minorder to %lu\n", res);
+	return 0;
+}
+__setup("debug_guardpage_minorder=", debug_guardpage_minorder_setup);
+
+static inline void set_page_guard_flag(struct page *page)
+{
+	__set_bit(PAGE_DEBUG_FLAG_GUARD, &page->debug_flags);
+}
+
+static inline void clear_page_guard_flag(struct page *page)
+{
+	__clear_bit(PAGE_DEBUG_FLAG_GUARD, &page->debug_flags);
+}
+#else
+static inline void set_page_guard_flag(struct page *page) { }
+static inline void clear_page_guard_flag(struct page *page) { }
+#endif
+
 static inline void set_page_order(struct page *page, int order)
 {
 	set_page_private(page, order);
@@ -445,6 +477,11 @@ static inline int page_is_buddy(struct page *page, struct page *buddy,
 	if (page_zone_id(page) != page_zone_id(buddy))
 		return 0;
 
+	if (page_is_guard(buddy) && page_order(buddy) == order) {
+		VM_BUG_ON(page_count(buddy) != 0);
+		return 1;
+	}
+
 	if (PageBuddy(buddy) && page_order(buddy) == order) {
 		VM_BUG_ON(page_count(buddy) != 0);
 		return 1;
@@ -501,11 +538,19 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page,
 		buddy = page + (buddy_idx - page_idx);
 		if (!page_is_buddy(page, buddy, order))
 			break;
-
-		/* Our buddy is free, merge with it and move up one order. */
-		list_del(&buddy->lru);
-		zone->free_area[order].nr_free--;
-		rmv_page_order(buddy);
+		/*
+		 * Our buddy is free or it is CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC guard page,
+		 * merge with it and move up one order.
+		 */
+		if (page_is_guard(buddy)) {
+			clear_page_guard_flag(buddy);
+			set_page_private(page, 0);
+			__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, 1 << order);
+		} else {
+			list_del(&buddy->lru);
+			zone->free_area[order].nr_free--;
+			rmv_page_order(buddy);
+		}
 		combined_idx = buddy_idx & page_idx;
 		page = page + (combined_idx - page_idx);
 		page_idx = combined_idx;
@@ -731,6 +776,23 @@ static inline void expand(struct zone *zone, struct page *page,
 		high--;
 		size >>= 1;
 		VM_BUG_ON(bad_range(zone, &page[size]));
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
+		if (high < debug_guardpage_minorder()) {
+			/*
+			 * Mark as guard pages (or page), that will allow to
+			 * merge back to allocator when buddy will be freed.
+			 * Corresponding page table entries will not be touched,
+			 * pages will stay not present in virtual address space
+			 */
+			INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page[size].lru);
+			set_page_guard_flag(&page[size]);
+			set_page_private(&page[size], high);
+			/* Guard pages are not available for any usage */
+			__mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, -(1 << high));
+			continue;
+		}
+#endif
 		list_add(&page[size].lru, &area->free_list[migratetype]);
 		area->nr_free++;
 		set_page_order(&page[size], high);
@@ -1754,7 +1816,8 @@ void warn_alloc_failed(gfp_t gfp_mask, int order, const char *fmt, ...)
 {
 	unsigned int filter = SHOW_MEM_FILTER_NODES;
 
-	if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) || !__ratelimit(&nopage_rs))
+	if ((gfp_mask & __GFP_NOWARN) || !__ratelimit(&nopage_rs) ||
+	    debug_guardpage_minorder() > 0)
 		return;
 
 	/*