kmemcheck: add the kmemcheck core

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: Vegard Nossum <vegardno@ifi.uio.no>
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>

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

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

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/kmemcheck.h b/include/linux/kmemcheck.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..39480c91b2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/kmemcheck.h
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+#ifndef LINUX_KMEMCHECK_H
+#define LINUX_KMEMCHECK_H
+
+#include <linux/mm_types.h>
+#include <linux/types.h>
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
+extern int kmemcheck_enabled;
+
+int kmemcheck_show_addr(unsigned long address);
+int kmemcheck_hide_addr(unsigned long address);
+#else
+#define kmemcheck_enabled 0
+
+#endif /* CONFIG_KMEMCHECK */
+
+#endif /* LINUX_KMEMCHECK_H */