From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 737E4C47E49 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2019 03:10:48 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kanga.kvack.org (kanga.kvack.org [205.233.56.17]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1553F217F5 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2019 03:10:48 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 1553F217F5 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=arm.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) id BB9A26B0007; Tue, 5 Nov 2019 22:10:47 -0500 (EST) Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 40) id B43496B0008; Tue, 5 Nov 2019 22:10:47 -0500 (EST) X-Delivered-To: int-list-linux-mm@kvack.org Received: by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix, from userid 63042) id A0B636B000A; Tue, 5 Nov 2019 22:10:47 -0500 (EST) X-Delivered-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Received: from forelay.hostedemail.com (smtprelay0243.hostedemail.com [216.40.44.243]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 854156B0007 for ; Tue, 5 Nov 2019 22:10:47 -0500 (EST) Received: from smtpin15.hostedemail.com (10.5.19.251.rfc1918.com [10.5.19.251]) by forelay02.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with SMTP id 3EE5A45AB for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2019 03:10:47 +0000 (UTC) X-FDA: 76124375334.15.love03_7b22f7ee98248 X-HE-Tag: love03_7b22f7ee98248 X-Filterd-Recvd-Size: 5031 Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by imf32.hostedemail.com (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2019 03:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0480C30E; Tue, 5 Nov 2019 19:10:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from [192.168.225.149] (unknown [172.31.20.19]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 4DA843F719; Tue, 5 Nov 2019 19:10:22 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: [PATCH V8] mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture page table helpers To: Gerald Schaefer Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Vlastimil Babka , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , Mike Rapoport , Jason Gunthorpe , Dan Williams , Peter Zijlstra , Michal Hocko , Mark Rutland , Mark Brown , Steven Price , Ard Biesheuvel , Masahiro Yamada , Kees Cook , Tetsuo Handa , Matthew Wilcox , Sri Krishna chowdary , Dave Hansen , Russell King - ARM Linux , Michael Ellerman , Paul Mackerras , Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , "David S. Miller" , Vineet Gupta , James Hogan , Paul Burton , Ralf Baechle , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , Christophe Leroy , Ingo Molnar , linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1572240562-23630-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> <20191105203638.6889a994@thinkpad> From: Anshuman Khandual Message-ID: Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 08:40:57 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20191105203638.6889a994@thinkpad> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: On 11/06/2019 01:06 AM, Gerald Schaefer wrote: > On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:59:22 +0530 > Anshuman Khandual wrote: > >> This adds tests which will validate architecture page table helpers and >> other accessors in their compliance with expected generic MM semantics. >> This will help various architectures in validating changes to existing >> page table helpers or addition of new ones. >> >> This test covers basic page table entry transformations including but not >> limited to old, young, dirty, clean, write, write protect etc at various >> level along with populating intermediate entries with next page table page >> and validating them. >> >> Test page table pages are allocated from system memory with required size >> and alignments. The mapped pfns at page table levels are derived from a >> real pfn representing a valid kernel text symbol. This test gets called >> right after page_alloc_init_late(). >> >> This gets build and run when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE is selected along with >> CONFIG_VM_DEBUG. Architectures willing to subscribe this test also need to >> select CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE which for now is limited to x86 and >> arm64. Going forward, other architectures too can enable this after fixing >> build or runtime problems (if any) with their page table helpers. > > I've prepared a couple of commits to our arch code to make this work on s390, > they will go upstream in the next merge window. After that, we can add s390 > to the supported architectures. Thats good. > > We had some issues, e.g. because we do not report large entries as bad in > pxd_bad(), do not check for folded page tables in pxd_free(), or assume > that primitives like pmd_mkdirty() will only be called after pmd_mkhuge(). > None of those should have any impact on current code, but your test module > revealed that we do not behave like other architectures in some aspects, > and it's good to find and fix such things to prevent possible future issues. Right and those s390 fixes are the testimony for the usefulness of this test. > > Thanks a lot for the effort! > > Regards, > Gerald > >