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[...] >> We catch corruption in a handful of PTE bits, and that's about it. You neither >> detect corruption of flags nor of PFN bits that result in another valid PFN. > > Of course it's limited in what it can catch (and won't even get called > if the present bit was not set - a more complete patch might unify with > those various "Bad swap" messages). Of course. But it's still useful for > stopping pfn_to_page() veering off the end of the memmap[] (in some configs). Right, probably in the configs we both don't care that much about nowadays :) > And it's still useful for printing out a series of "Bad page map" messages > when the page table is corrupted: from which a picture can sometimes be > built up (isolated instance may just be a bitflip; series of them can > sometimes show e.g. ascii text, occasionally helpful for debugging). It's kind of a weird thing, because we do something very different opposed to other areas where we detect that something serious is going wrong (e.g., WARN). But another thread just sparked whether we should WARN here, so I'll leave that discussion to the other thread. > >> >> Corruption of the "special" bit might be fun. >> >> When I was able to trigger this during development once, the whole machine >> went down shortly after -- mostly because of use-after-free of something that >> is now a page table, which is just bad for both users of such a page! >> >> E.g., quit that process and we will happily clear the PTE, corrupting data of >> the other user. Fun. >> >> I'm sure I could find a way to unify the code while printing some comparable >> message, but this check as it stands is just not worth it IMHO: trying to >> handle something gracefully that shouldn't happen, when really we cannot >> handle it gracefully. > > So, you have experience of a time when it didn't help you. Okay. And we > have had experience of other times when it has helped, if only a little. > Like with other "Bad page"s: sometimes helpful, often not; but tending to > build up a big picture from repeated occurrences. Okay. I was rather curious how often we would actually hit this one here: from my recollection, the mapcount underflows are much more frequent than the ones from vm_normal_page(). > > We continue to disagree. I can't argue more than append the 2.6.29 > commit message, which seems to me as valid now as it was then. Not that I agree that performing these sanity checks in each and every config is something reasonable, but apparently you think that they are still useful, 16 years after they were introduced. So, let me try finding a way to unify the code while keeping that error handling for now in place. -- Cheers, David / dhildenb