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970 | 970 | buddy allocator. Bigger value increase the probability |
971 | 971 | of catching random memory corruption, but reduce the |
972 | 972 | amount of memory for normal system use. The maximum |
973 | | - possible value is MAX_ORDER/2. Setting this parameter |
974 | | - to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most random |
975 | | - memory corruption problems caused by bugs in kernel or |
976 | | - driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads from) a |
977 | | - random memory location. Note that there exists a class |
978 | | - of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy H/W or |
979 | | - F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA (basically when |
980 | | - memory is written at bus level and the CPU MMU is |
981 | | - bypassed) which are not detectable by |
982 | | - CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not help |
983 | | - tracking down these problems. |
| 973 | + possible value is MAX_PAGE_ORDER/2. Setting this |
| 974 | + parameter to 1 or 2 should be enough to identify most |
| 975 | + random memory corruption problems caused by bugs in |
| 976 | + kernel or driver code when a CPU writes to (or reads |
| 977 | + from) a random memory location. Note that there exists |
| 978 | + a class of memory corruptions problems caused by buggy |
| 979 | + H/W or F/W or by drivers badly programming DMA |
| 980 | + (basically when memory is written at bus level and the |
| 981 | + CPU MMU is bypassed) which are not detectable by |
| 982 | + CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC, hence this option will not |
| 983 | + help tracking down these problems. |
984 | 984 |
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985 | 985 | debug_pagealloc= |
986 | 986 | [KNL] When CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is set, this parameter |
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4136 | 4136 | [KNL] Minimal page reporting order |
4137 | 4137 | Format: <integer> |
4138 | 4138 | Adjust the minimal page reporting order. The page |
4139 | | - reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_ORDER. |
| 4139 | + reporting is disabled when it exceeds MAX_PAGE_ORDER. |
4140 | 4140 |
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4141 | 4141 | panic= [KNL] Kernel behaviour on panic: delay <timeout> |
4142 | 4142 | timeout > 0: seconds before rebooting |
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