On 03.11.20 16:22, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO uses the zero pattern instead of 0xAA. It was
introduced by commit 1414c7f4f7d7 ("mm/page_poisoning.c: allow for zero
poisoning"), noting that using zeroes retains the benefit of sanitizing content
of freed pages, with the benefit of not having to zero them again on alloc, and
the downside of making some forms of corruption (stray writes of NULLs) harder
to detect than with the 0xAA pattern. Together with
CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_NO_SANITY it made possible to sanitize the contents on
free without checking it back on alloc.
These days we have the init_on_free() option to achieve sanitization with
zeroes and to save clearing on alloc (and without checking on alloc). Arguably
if someone does choose to check the poison for corruption on alloc, the savings
of not clearing the page are secondary, and it makes sense to always use the
0xAA poison pattern. Thus, remove the CONFIG_PAGE_POISONING_ZERO option for
being redundant.
I agree, this simplifies things ... and I don't see a need to complicate
things to speed up corner-case debug mechanisms. Thanks!
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx>
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Thanks,
David / dhildenb
