mm-more-intensive-memory-corruption-debug-fix

tweak documentation, s/flg/flag/

Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 9906afe52b65f9c260f923ce3d90de314c64fc92..7ad82479f4e955d65238a0f30d5d05fa939ece84 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -625,21 +625,22 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
 
        debug_guardpage_minorder=
                        [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this
-                       parameter allows control order of pages that will be
-                       intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by buddy
-                       allocator. Bigger value increase probability of
-                       catching random memory corruption, but reduce amount
-                       of memory for normal system use. Maximum possible
-                       value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter to 1 or 2,
-                       should be enough to identify most random memory
-                       corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel/drivers
-                       code when CPU write to (or read from) random memory
-                       location. Note that there exist class of memory
-                       corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or F/W or by
-                       drivers badly programing DMA (basically when memory is
-                       written at bus level and CPU MMU is bypassed), which
-                       are not detectable by CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this
-                       option would not help tracking down these problems too.
+                       parameter allows control of the order of pages that will
+                       be intentionally kept free (and hence protected) by the
+                       buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability
+                       of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the
+                       amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum
+                       possible value is MAX_ORDER/2.  Setting this parameter
+                       to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random
+                       memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or
+                       driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a
+                       random memory location. Note that there exists a class
+                       of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or
+                       F/W or by drivers badly programing DMA (basically when
+                       memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is
+                       bypassed) which are not detectable by
+                       CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help
+                       tracking down these problems.
 
        debugpat        [X86] Enable PAT debugging
 

diff --git a/mm/page_alloc.c b/mm/page_alloc.c
index 8b13233f851fb6545d0420a85c4e97f464367473..e84aba456112aadc20e27647269d0a37f7daf439 100644 (file)
--- a/mm/page_alloc.c
+++ b/mm/page_alloc.c
@@ -419,18 +419,18 @@ static int __init debug_guardpage_minorder_setup(char *buf)
 }
 __setup("debug_guardpage_minorder=", debug_guardpage_minorder_setup);
 
-static inline void set_page_guard_flg(struct page *page)
+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_flg(struct page *page)
+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_flg(struct page *page) { }
-static inline void clear_page_guard_flg(struct page *page) { }
+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)
@@ -556,7 +556,7 @@ static inline void __free_one_page(struct page *page,
                 * merge with it and move up one order.
                 */
                if (page_is_guard(buddy)) {
-                       clear_page_guard_flg(buddy);
+                       clear_page_guard_flag(buddy);
                        set_page_private(page, 0);
                        __mod_zone_page_state(zone, NR_FREE_PAGES, 1 << order);
                } else {
@@ -799,7 +799,7 @@ static inline void expand(struct zone *zone, struct page *page,
                         * pages will stay not present in virtual address space
                         */
                        INIT_LIST_HEAD(&page[size].lru);
-                       set_page_guard_flg(&page[size]);
+                       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));