x86: delay CPA self-test and repeat it
delay the CPA self-test so that any impact (corruption) of
user-space pagetables can be triggered. Repeat the test
every 30 seconds.
this would have prevented the bug fixed by 8cb2a7c1e95e472b5,
at its source.
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
index 2e1e3af..fa55514 100644
--- a/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -220,9 +220,9 @@
This option will cause struct boot_params to be exported via debugfs.
config CPA_DEBUG
- bool "CPA self test code"
+ bool "CPA self-test code"
depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
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- Do change_page_attr self tests at boot.
+ Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
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