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Vegard Nossum authored
General description: kmemcheck is a patch to the linux kernel that
detects use of uninitialized memory. It does this by trapping every
read and write to memory that was allocated dynamically (e.g. using
kmalloc()). If a memory address is read that has not previously been
written to, a message is printed to the kernel log.

Thanks to Andi Kleen for the set_memory_4k() solution.

Andrew Morton suggested documenting the shadow member of struct page.

Signed-off-by: default avatarVegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

[export kmemcheck_mark_initialized]
[build fix for setup_max_cpus]
Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>

[rebased for mainline inclusion]
Signed-off-by: default avatarVegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
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