Re: [PATCH V14] mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture page table helpers

[Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>]

Le 26/02/2020 à 15:09, Qian Cai a écrit :
> On Mon, 2020-02-17 at 08:47 +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
>> inside kernel_init() right after async_synchronize_full().
>>
>> This test gets built and run when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE is selected. Any
>> architecture, which is willing to subscribe this test will need to select
>> ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. For now this is limited to arc, arm64, x86, s390
>> and ppc32 platforms where the test is known to build and run successfully.
>> Going forward, other architectures too can subscribe the test after fixing
>> any build or runtime problems with their page table helpers. Meanwhile for
>> better platform coverage, the test can also be enabled with CONFIG_EXPERT
>> even without ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE.
>>
>> Folks interested in making sure that a given platform's page table helpers
>> conform to expected generic MM semantics should enable the above config
>> which will just trigger this test during boot. Any non conformity here will
>> be reported as an warning which would need to be fixed. This test will help
>> catch any changes to the agreed upon semantics expected from generic MM and
>> enable platforms to accommodate it thereafter.
> 
> How useful is this that straightly crash the powerpc?
> 
> [   23.263425][    T1] debug_vm_pgtable: debug_vm_pgtable: Validating
> architecture page table helpers
> [   23.263625][    T1] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> [   23.263649][    T1] kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:274!

The problem on PPC64 is known and has to be investigated and fixed.

Christophe