From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, dm-devel@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, mst@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org, edumazet@google.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v5] fault-injection: introduce kvmalloc fallback options Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:42:57 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview] Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1804251830540.25124@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1524694663.4100.21.camel@HansenPartnership.com> [-- Attachment #1: Type: TEXT/PLAIN, Size: 2372 bytes --] On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 17:22 -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, David Rientjes wrote: > > > > > > Do we really need the new config option? This could just be > > > manually tunable via fault injection IIUC. > > > > We do, because we want to enable it in RHEL and Fedora debugging > > kernels, so that it will be tested by the users. > > > > The users won't use some extra magic kernel options or debugfs files. > > If it can be enabled via a tunable, then the distro can turn it on > without the user having to do anything. You need to enable it on boot. Enabling it when the kernel starts to execute userspace code is already too late (because you would miss kvmalloc calls in the kernel boot path). These are files in the kernel-debug rpm package. Where would you put the extra kernel parameter to enable this feature? None of these files contain kernel parameters. kernel-debug /boot/.vmlinuz-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug.hmac kernel-debug /boot/System.map-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug kernel-debug /boot/config-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug kernel-debug /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug.img kernel-debug /boot/symvers-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug.gz kernel-debug /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug kernel-debug /etc/ld.so.conf.d/kernel-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug.conf kernel-debug /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug > If you want to present the user with a different boot option, you can > (just have the tunable set on the command line), but being tunable > driven means that you don't have to choose that option, you could > automatically enable it under a range of circumstances. I think most > sane distributions would want that flexibility. > > Kconfig proliferation, conversely, is a bit of a nightmare from both > the user and the tester's point of view, so we're trying to avoid it > unless absolutely necessary. > > James I already offered that we don't need to introduce a new kernel option and we can bind this feature to any other kernel option, that is enabled in the debug kernel, for example CONFIG_DEBUG_SG. Michal said no and he said that he wants a new kernel option instead. Mikulas
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From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> To: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com>, dm-devel@redhat.com, eric.dumazet@gmail.com, mst@redhat.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, jasowang@redhat.com, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>, linux-mm@kvack.org, edumazet@google.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org, David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>, Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Subject: Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v5] fault-injection: introduce kvmalloc fallback options Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2018 18:42:57 -0400 (EDT) [thread overview] Message-ID: <alpine.LRH.2.02.1804251830540.25124@file01.intranet.prod.int.rdu2.redhat.com> (raw) In-Reply-To: <1524694663.4100.21.camel@HansenPartnership.com> [-- Attachment #1: Type: TEXT/PLAIN, Size: 2372 bytes --] On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, James Bottomley wrote: > On Wed, 2018-04-25 at 17:22 -0400, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > > > > On Wed, 25 Apr 2018, David Rientjes wrote: > > > > > > Do we really need the new config option?A A This could just be > > > manuallyA tunable via fault injection IIUC. > > > > We do, because we want to enable it in RHEL and Fedora debugging > > kernels,A so that it will be tested by the users. > > > > The users won't use some extra magic kernel options or debugfs files. > > If it can be enabled via a tunable, then the distro can turn it on > without the user having to do anything. You need to enable it on boot. Enabling it when the kernel starts to execute userspace code is already too late (because you would miss kvmalloc calls in the kernel boot path). These are files in the kernel-debug rpm package. Where would you put the extra kernel parameter to enable this feature? None of these files contain kernel parameters. kernel-debug /boot/.vmlinuz-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug.hmac kernel-debug /boot/System.map-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug kernel-debug /boot/config-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug kernel-debug /boot/initramfs-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug.img kernel-debug /boot/symvers-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug.gz kernel-debug /boot/vmlinuz-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug kernel-debug /etc/ld.so.conf.d/kernel-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug.conf kernel-debug /lib/modules/3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64.debug > If you want to present the user with a different boot option, you can > (just have the tunable set on the command line), but being tunable > driven means that you don't have to choose that option, you could > automatically enable it under a range of circumstances. I think most > sane distributions would want that flexibility. > > Kconfig proliferation, conversely, is a bit of a nightmare from both > the user and the tester's point of view, so we're trying to avoid it > unless absolutely necessary. > > James I already offered that we don't need to introduce a new kernel option and we can bind this feature to any other kernel option, that is enabled in the debug kernel, for example CONFIG_DEBUG_SG. Michal said no and he said that he wants a new kernel option instead. Mikulas
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-25 22:43 UTC|newest] Thread overview: 218+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top 2018-04-18 14:34 [PATCH] net: don't use kvzalloc for DMA memory Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-18 16:05 ` Eric Dumazet 2018-04-18 16:44 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-18 16:44 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-18 16:51 ` Eric Dumazet 2018-04-18 16:51 ` Eric Dumazet 2018-04-18 17:47 ` David Miller 2018-04-18 17:47 ` David Miller 2018-04-18 17:55 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-18 17:55 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-18 18:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-18 18:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-18 17:49 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-18 17:49 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-18 16:51 ` Eric Dumazet 2018-04-18 17:46 ` David Miller 2018-04-18 17:53 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-19 16:12 ` [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-19 16:12 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-19 16:25 ` Eric Dumazet 2018-04-19 16:25 ` Eric Dumazet 2018-04-19 16:28 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-19 16:28 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-19 16:43 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-19 21:27 ` [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_SG Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-19 21:27 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-19 16:43 ` [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-19 18:28 ` Vlastimil Babka 2018-04-19 18:28 ` Vlastimil Babka 2018-04-19 19:47 ` Andrew Morton 2018-04-19 19:47 ` Andrew Morton 2018-04-19 21:19 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-19 21:19 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-19 23:22 ` Andrew Morton 2018-04-19 23:22 ` Andrew Morton 2018-04-20 12:16 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-20 12:16 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-20 11:47 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-04-20 11:47 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-04-20 12:20 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-23 15:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-23 15:25 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-20 12:20 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-20 13:08 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-20 13:08 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-20 13:41 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-04-20 13:41 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-04-20 13:49 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-20 13:49 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-20 20:56 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-20 20:56 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-20 20:54 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-20 21:02 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-04-20 21:02 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-04-20 21:21 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-21 14:47 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-04-22 13:03 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-22 13:03 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-23 14:24 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-23 15:10 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-23 15:10 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-23 23:20 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-23 23:20 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-23 14:24 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-23 14:06 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-23 14:06 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-23 15:15 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-23 15:15 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-24 0:06 ` [PATCH v3] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_SG Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 0:06 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 2:47 ` David Rientjes 2018-04-24 11:04 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 11:04 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 3:46 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-04-24 3:46 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-04-24 12:29 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 12:29 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 17:16 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-04-24 18:41 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 18:41 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-05-15 1:13 ` Joonsoo Kim 2018-05-15 1:13 ` Joonsoo Kim 2018-04-24 17:16 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-04-24 12:51 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-24 12:51 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-24 15:50 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 16:29 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-24 17:00 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 17:00 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 17:03 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-24 17:03 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-24 17:28 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 17:38 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-24 17:38 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-25 20:02 ` [PATCH] fault-injection: reorder config entries Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-25 20:02 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 3:21 ` Randy Dunlap 2018-04-26 3:21 ` Randy Dunlap 2018-04-25 20:02 ` [PATCH v4] fault-injection: introduce kvmalloc fallback options Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-25 20:02 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-25 20:20 ` Randy Dunlap 2018-04-25 20:20 ` Randy Dunlap 2018-04-25 20:57 ` [PATCH v5] " Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-25 20:57 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-25 21:11 ` Randy Dunlap 2018-04-25 21:11 ` Randy Dunlap 2018-04-25 21:18 ` David Rientjes 2018-04-25 21:22 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-25 21:22 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-25 22:17 ` [dm-devel] " James Bottomley 2018-04-25 22:17 ` James Bottomley 2018-04-25 22:42 ` Mikulas Patocka [this message] 2018-04-25 22:42 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-25 22:49 ` David Rientjes 2018-04-25 22:56 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-25 22:56 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 12:58 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-26 12:58 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-26 14:28 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 14:28 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 14:45 ` [dm-devel] " James Bottomley 2018-04-26 14:45 ` James Bottomley 2018-04-26 15:05 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 15:05 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 15:24 ` James Bottomley 2018-04-26 15:24 ` James Bottomley 2018-04-26 15:44 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 15:44 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 15:44 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 15:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-26 15:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-26 16:07 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 16:07 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 18:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-26 18:54 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 18:54 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 19:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-26 19:14 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-26 19:36 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 19:36 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 19:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-26 19:45 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-26 20:05 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 20:05 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 18:49 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-26 16:07 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 18:58 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 18:58 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 19:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-26 19:05 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-26 15:59 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-26 15:55 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 15:55 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 15:05 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 14:28 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-25 22:42 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-25 23:00 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-25 23:00 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-25 23:00 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-25 23:08 ` James Bottomley 2018-04-25 23:08 ` James Bottomley 2018-04-26 14:55 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 14:55 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 14:55 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 14:55 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 15:22 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 15:22 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 15:22 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 18:58 ` John Stoffel 2018-04-26 21:50 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 21:50 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 22:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-26 22:52 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 22:52 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-27 8:25 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-27 8:25 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-27 10:20 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-27 10:20 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-27 23:20 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-27 23:20 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-26 22:21 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-30 18:27 ` John Stoffel 2018-04-30 21:07 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-05-02 13:38 ` John Stoffel 2018-05-03 17:40 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-05-03 17:40 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-30 21:07 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 17:28 ` [PATCH v3] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_SG Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 16:29 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-24 15:50 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 0:25 ` [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 13:31 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-24 13:31 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-24 15:30 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 15:30 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 16:12 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-24 16:12 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-24 16:29 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-24 16:29 ` Michal Hocko 2018-04-24 16:33 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 16:33 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-05-02 0:36 ` Andrew Morton 2018-05-02 0:36 ` Andrew Morton 2018-05-02 13:33 ` Mike Snitzer 2018-05-02 13:40 ` [dm-devel] " John Stoffel 2018-05-02 13:33 ` Mike Snitzer 2018-05-03 17:32 ` [PATCH] " Mikulas Patocka 2018-05-03 17:32 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-24 0:25 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-21 14:47 ` Matthew Wilcox 2018-04-20 21:21 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-20 20:54 ` Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-18 17:53 ` [PATCH] net: don't use kvzalloc for DMA memory Mikulas Patocka 2018-04-18 17:46 ` David Miller 2018-04-18 17:45 ` David Miller 2018-04-18 17:55 ` Michael S. Tsirkin 2018-04-18 20:38 ` Eric Dumazet 2018-04-19 4:00 ` Michael S. Tsirkin
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