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* Start copyright notice with /*-joel2010-04-071-1/+1
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* Improve memguard a bit:pjd2005-12-301-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Provide tunable vm.memguard.desc, so one can specify memory type without changing the code and recompiling the kernel. - Allow to use memguard for kernel modules by providing sysctl vm.memguard.desc, which can be changed to short description of memory type before module is loaded. - Move as much memguard code as possible to memguard.c. - Add sysctl node vm.memguard. and move memguard-specific sysctl there. - Add malloc_desc2type() function for finding memory type based on its short description (ks_shortdesc field). - Memory type can be changed (via vm.memguard.desc sysctl) only if it doesn't exist (will be loaded later) or when no memory is allocated yet. If there is allocated memory for the given memory type, return EBUSY. - Implement two ways of memory types comparsion and make safer/slower the default.
* Well, it seems that I pre-maturely removed the "All rights reserved"bmilekic2005-02-161-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | statement from some files, so re-add it for the moment, until the related legalese is sorted out. This change affects: sys/kern/kern_mbuf.c sys/vm/memguard.c sys/vm/memguard.h sys/vm/uma.h sys/vm/uma_core.c sys/vm/uma_dbg.c sys/vm/uma_dbg.h sys/vm/uma_int.h
* Bring in MemGuard, a very simple and small replacement allocatorbmilekic2005-01-211-0/+31
designed to help detect tamper-after-free scenarios, a problem more and more common and likely with multithreaded kernels where race conditions are more prevalent. Currently MemGuard can only take over malloc()/realloc()/free() for particular (a) malloc type(s) and the code brought in with this change manually instruments it to take over M_SUBPROC allocations as an example. If you are planning to use it, for now you must: 1) Put "options DEBUG_MEMGUARD" in your kernel config. 2) Edit src/sys/kern/kern_malloc.c manually, look for "XXX CHANGEME" and replace the M_SUBPROC comparison with the appropriate malloc type (this might require additional but small/simple code modification if, say, the malloc type is declared out of scope). 3) Build and install your kernel. Tune vm.memguard_divisor boot-time tunable which is used to scale how much of kmem_map you want to allott for MemGuard's use. The default is 10, so kmem_size/10. ToDo: 1) Bring in a memguard(9) man page. 2) Better instrumentation (e.g., boot-time) of MemGuard taking over malloc types. 3) Teach UMA about MemGuard to allow MemGuard to override zone allocations too. 4) Improve MemGuard if necessary. This work is partly based on some old patches from Ian Dowse.
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