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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-09-24 16:10:23 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2019-09-24 16:10:23 -0700
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Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew)
Merge updates from Andrew Morton: - a few hot fixes - ocfs2 updates - almost all of -mm (slab-generic, slab, slub, kmemleak, kasan, cleanups, debug, pagecache, memcg, gup, pagemap, memory-hotplug, sparsemem, vmalloc, initialization, z3fold, compaction, mempolicy, oom-kill, hugetlb, migration, thp, mmap, madvise, shmem, zswap, zsmalloc) * emailed patches from Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>: (132 commits) mm/zsmalloc.c: fix a -Wunused-function warning zswap: do not map same object twice zswap: use movable memory if zpool support allocate movable memory zpool: add malloc_support_movable to zpool_driver shmem: fix obsolete comment in shmem_getpage_gfp() mm/madvise: reduce code duplication in error handling paths mm: mmap: increase sockets maximum memory size pgoff for 32bits mm/mmap.c: refine find_vma_prev() with rb_last() riscv: make mmap allocation top-down by default mips: use generic mmap top-down layout and brk randomization mips: replace arch specific way to determine 32bit task with generic version mips: adjust brk randomization offset to fit generic version mips: use STACK_TOP when computing mmap base address mips: properly account for stack randomization and stack guard gap arm: use generic mmap top-down layout and brk randomization arm: use STACK_TOP when computing mmap base address arm: properly account for stack randomization and stack guard gap arm64, mm: make randomization selected by generic topdown mmap layout arm64, mm: move generic mmap layout functions to mm arm64: consider stack randomization for mmap base only when necessary ...
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enables the feature at boot time. By default, it is
disabled and the system will work mostly the same as a
kernel built without CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.
+ Note: to get most of debug_pagealloc error reports, it's
+ useful to also enable the page_owner functionality.
on: enable the feature
debugpat [X86] Enable PAT debugging