From: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
To: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>,
Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org
Cc: mpe@ellerman.id.au, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org,
linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, x86@kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>,
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.ibm.com>, Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>,
"Erhard F." <erhard_f@mailbox.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 12/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtable/hugetlb: Disable hugetlb test on ppc64
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2020 09:59:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <2ca78670-eb76-0192-7a83-1c1fa4a0fff5@csgroup.eu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <68f90b44-b830-58be-3c21-424fee05da37@linux.ibm.com>
Le 01/09/2020 à 08:30, Aneesh Kumar K.V a écrit :
>>
>
> I actually wanted to add #ifdef BROKEN. That test is completely broken.
> Infact I would suggest to remove that test completely.
>
>
>
>> #ifdef will not be required here as there would be a stub definition
>> for hugetlb_advanced_tests() when CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 is enabled.
>>
>>> spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
>>> p4d_clear_tests(mm, p4dp);
>>>
>>
>> But again, we should really try and avoid taking this path.
>>
>
> To be frank i am kind of frustrated with how this patch series is being
> looked at. We pushed a completely broken test to upstream and right now
> we have a code in upstream that crash when booted on ppc64. My attempt
> has been to make progress here and you definitely seems to be not in
> agreement to that.
>
> At this point I am tempted to suggest we remove the DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
> support on ppc64 because AFAIU it doesn't add any value.
>
Note that a bug has been filed at
https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=209029
Christophe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-01 8:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 51+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-08-27 8:04 [PATCH v3 00/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtable fixes Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-08-27 8:04 ` [PATCH v3 01/13] powerpc/mm: Add DEBUG_VM WARN for pmd_clear Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 3:12 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-08-27 8:04 ` [PATCH v3 02/13] powerpc/mm: Move setting pte specific flags to pfn_pte Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 3:13 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-08-27 8:04 ` [PATCH v3 03/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtable/ppc64: Avoid setting top bits in radom value Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 3:15 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-09-01 6:21 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 7:32 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-09-01 7:36 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 7:46 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-09-01 7:55 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-02 3:45 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-08-27 8:04 ` [PATCH v3 04/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtables/hugevmap: Use the arch helper to identify huge vmap support Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 3:16 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-08-27 8:04 ` [PATCH v3 05/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtable/savedwrite: Enable savedwrite test with CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 3:18 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-08-27 8:04 ` [PATCH v3 06/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtable/THP: Mark the pte entry huge before using set_pmd/pud_at Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 3:21 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-09-01 6:23 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-08-27 8:04 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtable/set_pte/pmd/pud: Don't use set_*_at to update an existing pte entry Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-08-27 8:04 ` [PATCH v3 08/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtable/thp: Use page table depost/withdraw with THP Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 3:22 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-09-01 6:25 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 6:50 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-01 7:40 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 7:51 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-09-02 3:45 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-08-27 8:04 ` [PATCH v3 09/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtable/locks: Move non page table modifying test together Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 3:41 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-09-01 6:38 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 9:33 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-09-01 9:36 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 9:58 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-08-27 8:04 ` [PATCH v3 10/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtable/locks: Take correct page table lock Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 3:44 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-08-27 8:04 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtable/pmd_clear: Don't use pmd/pud_clear on pte entries Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-08-27 8:04 ` [PATCH v3 12/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtable/hugetlb: Disable hugetlb test on ppc64 Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 4:03 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-09-01 6:30 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 7:59 ` Christophe Leroy [this message]
2020-09-02 13:05 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-09-02 13:20 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-08-27 8:04 ` [PATCH v3 13/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: populate a pte entry before fetching it Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-08-27 12:17 ` kernel test robot
2020-09-01 3:25 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-09-01 6:37 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-01 7:38 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-09-01 9:58 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2020-09-02 3:49 ` Anshuman Khandual
2020-09-02 3:58 ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
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