Re: [PATCH v3 01/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Introduce struct pgtable_debug_args

From: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
To: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>, linux-mm@kvack.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, catalin.marinas@arm.com,
	will@kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, chuhu@redhat.com,
	shan.gavin@gmail.com,
	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>,
	Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>,
	Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>,
	"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 01/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Introduce struct pgtable_debug_args
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 21:59:38 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <8f2cac0a-caac-9a0b-3eff-83f120882e48@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <23bb5363-fd36-5161-0ba2-da1efc3e3018@arm.com>

On 7/21/21 8:59 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 7/21/21 4:09 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> On 7/21/21 3:50 PM, Gavin Shan wrote:
>>> On 7/21/21 3:44 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>>>> On 7/19/21 6:36 PM, 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 functions for various test
>>>>> cases need is the struct, to simplify the code. It also makes code
>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> This introduces "struct pgtable_debug_args". The struct is initialized
>>>>> and destroyed, but the information in the struct isn't used yet. They
>>>>> will be used in subsequent patches.
>>>>>
>>>>> Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
>>>>> ---
>>>>>    mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c | 197 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
>>>>>    1 file changed, 196 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>>>>>
>>> I saw you've finished the review on PATCH[v3 01/12] and PATCH[v3 02/12].
>>> I will wait to integrate your comments to v4 until you finish the review
>>> on all patches in v3 series
>> Yes, please do wait for the complete review and test before going for V4.
>> Also please add the following emails on copy next time, so that we might
>> have some more reviews here. Thank you.
>>
>> + Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
>> + Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
> 
> This one instead.
> 
> Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com>
> 

Sure, It's always nice to have more reviews from the experts. I will
include them when I post v4. Thanks again for your time to review :)

Thanks,
Gavin