mm/debug-pagealloc: prepare boottime configurable on/off

Until now, debug-pagealloc needs extra flags in struct page, so we need to
recompile whole source code when we decide to use it.  This is really
painful, because it takes some time to recompile and sometimes rebuild is
not possible due to third party module depending on struct page.  So, we
can't use this good feature in many cases.

Now, we have the page extension feature that allows us to insert extra
flags to outside of struct page.  This gets rid of third party module
issue mentioned above.  And, this allows us to determine if we need extra
memory for this page extension in boottime.  With these property, we can
avoid using debug-pagealloc in boottime with low computational overhead in
the kernel built with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC.  This will help our
development process greatly.

This patch is the preparation step to achive above goal.  debug-pagealloc
originally uses extra field of struct page, but, after this patch, it will
use field of struct page_ext.  Because memory for page_ext is allocated
later than initialization of page allocator in CONFIG_SPARSEMEM, we should
disable debug-pagealloc feature temporarily until initialization of
page_ext.  This patch implements this.

Signed-off-by: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave@sr71.net>
Cc: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Cc: Jungsoo Son <jungsoo.son@lge.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 15 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/page_ext.h b/include/linux/page_ext.h
index 2ccc8b414e5c..61c0f05f9069 100644
--- a/include/linux/page_ext.h
+++ b/include/linux/page_ext.h
@@ -10,6 +10,21 @@ struct page_ext_operations {
 #ifdef CONFIG_PAGE_EXTENSION
 
 /*
+ * page_ext->flags bits:
+ *
+ * PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_POISON is set for poisoned pages. This is used to
+ * implement generic debug pagealloc feature. The pages are filled with
+ * poison patterns and set this flag after free_pages(). The poisoned
+ * pages are verified whether the patterns are not corrupted and clear
+ * the flag before alloc_pages().
+ */
+
+enum page_ext_flags {
+	PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_POISON,		/* Page is poisoned */
+	PAGE_EXT_DEBUG_GUARD,
+};
+
+/*
  * Page Extension can be considered as an extended mem_map.
  * A page_ext page is associated with every page descriptor. The
  * page_ext helps us add more information about the page.