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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Pengfei Hu <hpfei.cn@gmail.com>, Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Using module private memory to simulate microkernel's memory protection
Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 15:14:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090210141405.GA16147@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a5f59d880902100542x7243b13fuf40e7dd21faf7d7a@mail.gmail.com>


* Pengfei Hu <hpfei.cn@gmail.com> wrote:

> diff -Nurp old/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug new/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
> --- old/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug	2008-10-10 06:13:53.000000000 +0800
> +++ new/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug	2008-12-07 19:19:40.000000000 +0800
> @@ -67,6 +67,16 @@ config DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
>  	  This results in a large slowdown, but helps to find certain types
>  	  of memory corruptions.
> 
> +config DEBUG_KM_PROTECT
> +        bool "Debug kernel memory protect"
> +        depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
> +        select DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> +        select SLUB
> +        help
> +          Change page table's present flag to prevent other module's accidental
> +          access. This results in a large slowdown and waste more memory, but
> +          helps to find certain types of memory corruptions.

Hm, are you aware of the kmemcheck project?

	Ingo

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  reply	other threads:[~2009-02-10 14:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-10 13:42 Using module private memory to simulate microkernel's memory protection Pengfei Hu
2009-02-10 14:14 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2009-02-11 14:04   ` Pengfei Hu
2009-02-11 14:55     ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-11 15:23       ` Ingo Molnar
2009-02-21  9:24         ` Pengfei Hu

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