Re: [PATCH v4 01/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Introduce struct pgtable_debug_args

From: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
To: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com,
	aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com, christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu,
	cai@lca.pw, catalin.marinas@arm.com, will@kernel.org,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, chuhu@redhat.com,
	shan.gavin@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Introduce struct pgtable_debug_args
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2021 13:02:36 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <9977fea4-ff36-390a-3a5a-58f088dab111@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210727061401.592616-2-gshan@redhat.com>


On 7/27/21 11:43 AM, Gavin Shan wrote:
> In debug_vm_pgtable(), there are many local variables introduced to
> track the needed information and they are passed to the functions for
> various test cases. It'd better to introduce a struct as place holder
> for these information. With it, what the tests functions need is the
> struct. In this way, the code is simplified and easier to be maintained.
> 
> Besides, set_xxx_at() could access the data on the corresponding pages
> in the page table modifying tests. So the accessed pages in the tests
> should have been allocated from buddy. Otherwise, we're accessing pages
> that aren't owned by us. This causes issues like page flag corruption
> or kernel crash on accessing unmapped page when CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC
> is enabled.
> 
> This introduces "struct pgtable_debug_args". The struct is initialized
> and destroyed, but the information in the struct isn't used yet. It will
> be used in subsequent patches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
> ---
>  mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c | 280 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 279 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
> index 1c922691aa61..8c7361643166 100644
> --- a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
> +++ b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
> @@ -58,6 +58,37 @@
>  #define RANDOM_ORVALUE (GENMASK(BITS_PER_LONG - 1, 0) & ~ARCH_SKIP_MASK)
>  #define RANDOM_NZVALUE	GENMASK(7, 0)
>  
> +struct pgtable_debug_args {
> +	struct mm_struct	*mm;
> +	struct vm_area_struct	*vma;
> +
> +	pgd_t			*pgdp;
> +	p4d_t			*p4dp;
> +	pud_t			*pudp;
> +	pmd_t			*pmdp;
> +	pte_t			*ptep;
> +
> +	p4d_t			*start_p4dp;
> +	pud_t			*start_pudp;
> +	pmd_t			*start_pmdp;
> +	pgtable_t		start_ptep;
> +
> +	unsigned long		vaddr;
> +	pgprot_t		page_prot;
> +	pgprot_t		page_prot_none;
> +
> +	bool			is_contiguous_page;
> +	unsigned long		pud_pfn;
> +	unsigned long		pmd_pfn;
> +	unsigned long		pte_pfn;
> +
> +	unsigned long		fixed_pgd_pfn;
> +	unsigned long		fixed_p4d_pfn;
> +	unsigned long		fixed_pud_pfn;
> +	unsigned long		fixed_pmd_pfn;
> +	unsigned long		fixed_pte_pfn;
> +};
> +
>  static void __init pte_basic_tests(unsigned long pfn, int idx)
>  {
>  	pgprot_t prot = protection_map[idx];
> @@ -955,8 +986,249 @@ static unsigned long __init get_random_vaddr(void)
>  	return random_vaddr;
>  }
>  
> +static void __init destroy_args(struct pgtable_debug_args *args)
> +{
> +	struct page *page = NULL;
> +
> +	/* Free (huge) page */
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) &&
> +	    IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD) &&
> +	    has_transparent_hugepage() &&
> +	    args->pud_pfn != ULONG_MAX) {
> +		if (args->is_contiguous_page) {
> +			free_contig_range(args->pud_pfn,
> +					  (1 << (HPAGE_PUD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT)));
> +		} else {
> +			page = pfn_to_page(args->pud_pfn);
> +			__free_pages(page, HPAGE_PUD_SHIFT - PAGE_SHIFT);
> +		}
> +
> +		args->pud_pfn = ULONG_MAX;
> +		args->pmd_pfn = ULONG_MAX;
> +		args->pte_pfn = ULONG_MAX;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE) &&
> +	    has_transparent_hugepage() &&
> +	    args->pmd_pfn != ULONG_MAX) {
> +		if (args->is_contiguous_page) {
> +			free_contig_range(args->pmd_pfn, (1 << HPAGE_PMD_ORDER));
> +		} else {
> +			page = pfn_to_page(args->pmd_pfn);
> +			__free_pages(page, HPAGE_PMD_ORDER);
> +		}
> +
> +		args->pmd_pfn = ULONG_MAX;
> +		args->pte_pfn = ULONG_MAX;
> +	}
> +
> +	if (args->pte_pfn != ULONG_MAX) {
> +		page = pfn_to_page(args->pte_pfn);
> +		__free_pages(page, 0);
> +	}
> +
> +	/* Free page table entries */
> +	if (args->start_ptep) {
> +		pte_free(args->mm, args->start_ptep);
> +		mm_dec_nr_ptes(args->mm);
> +	}
> +
> +	if (args->start_pmdp) {
> +		pmd_free(args->mm, args->start_pmdp);
> +		mm_dec_nr_pmds(args->mm);
> +	}
> +
> +	if (args->start_pudp) {
> +		pud_free(args->mm, args->start_pudp);
> +		mm_dec_nr_puds(args->mm);
> +	}
> +
> +	if (args->start_p4dp)
> +		p4d_free(args->mm, args->p4dp);

				     ^^^^ s/args->p4dp/args->start_p4dp ?