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From: Bosko Milekic <bosko.milekic@gmail.com>
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I like this very much.  Please commit and feel free to continue
improving Memguard for yours (and everyone elses) benefit.

On 12/27/05, Pawel Jakub Dawidek <pjd@freebsd.org> wrote:
> Here is the patch:
>
>         http://people.freebsd.org/~pjd/patches/kern_malloc.c.3.patch
>
> It allows to configure memory type to debug without recompilling the
> kernel. It also allows to debug kernel modules with memguard.
>
> The rules:
> 1. If memory type is compiled into the kernel vm.memguard_desc should be
>    configured in /boot/loader.conf.
> 2. If memory type is in kernel module, vm.memguard_desc sysctl should be
>    configured before loading the module.
>
> --
> Pawel Jakub Dawidek                       http://www.wheel.pl
> pjd@FreeBSD.org                           http://www.FreeBSD.org
> FreeBSD committer                         Am I Evil? Yes, I Am!
>
>
>


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