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
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 12/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Fix corrupted page flag
Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2021 22:03:39 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8157142c-58e0-44c4-5cdb-76fff4a07210@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <57cb2f04-b3f2-2df4-3d9b-0b430b9c9f3e@arm.com>
Hi Anshuman,
On 7/21/21 8:18 PM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> On 7/19/21 6:36 PM, Gavin Shan wrote:
>> In page table entry modifying tests, set_xxx_at() are used to populate
>> the page table entries. On ARM64, PG_arch_1 is set to the target page
>> flag if execution permission is given. The page flag is kept when the
>> page is free'd to buddy's free area list. However, it will trigger page
>> checking failure when it's pulled from the buddy's free area list, as
>> the following warning messages indicate.
>>
>> BUG: Bad page state in process memhog pfn:08000
>> page:0000000015c0a628 refcount:0 mapcount:0 \
>> mapping:0000000000000000 index:0x1 pfn:0x8000
>> flags: 0x7ffff8000000800(arch_1|node=0|zone=0|lastcpupid=0xfffff)
>> raw: 07ffff8000000800 dead000000000100 dead000000000122 0000000000000000
>> raw: 0000000000000001 0000000000000000 00000000ffffffff 0000000000000000
>> page dumped because: PAGE_FLAGS_CHECK_AT_PREP flag(s) set
>>
>> This fixes the issue by clearing PG_arch_1 through flush_dcache_page()
>> after set_xxx_at() is called.
>
> Could you please add comments before each flush_dcache_page() instance
> explaining why this is needed for arm64 platforms with relevant PG_arch_1
> context and how this does not have any adverse effect on other platforms ?
> It should be easy for some one looking at this code after a while to figure
> out from where flush_dcache_page() came from.
>
Good point. I will improve chage log to include the commit ID in v4 where the
page flag (PG_arch_1) is used and explain how. In that case, it's much clearer
to understand the reason why we need flush_dcache_page() after set_xxx_at() on
ARM64.
Thanks,
Gavin
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-07-21 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-07-19 13:06 [PATCH v3 00/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Enhancements Gavin Shan
2021-07-19 13:06 ` [PATCH v3 01/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Introduce struct pgtable_debug_args Gavin Shan
2021-07-21 5:44 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-21 10:20 ` Gavin Shan
2021-07-21 10:39 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-21 10:59 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-21 11:59 ` Gavin Shan
2021-07-22 4:41 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-22 6:23 ` Gavin Shan
2021-07-22 7:08 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-23 0:43 ` Gavin Shan
2021-07-19 13:06 ` [PATCH v3 02/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use struct pgtable_debug_args in basic tests Gavin Shan
2021-07-21 5:57 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-21 11:57 ` Gavin Shan
2021-07-19 13:06 ` [PATCH v3 03/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use struct pgtable_debug_args in leaf and savewrite tests Gavin Shan
2021-07-19 13:06 ` [PATCH v3 04/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use struct pgtable_debug_args in protnone and devmap tests Gavin Shan
2021-07-19 13:06 ` [PATCH v3 05/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use struct pgtable_debug_args in soft_dirty and swap tests Gavin Shan
2021-07-19 13:06 ` [PATCH v3 06/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use struct pgtable_debug_args in migration and thp tests Gavin Shan
2021-07-19 13:06 ` [PATCH v3 07/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use struct pgtable_debug_args in PTE modifying tests Gavin Shan
2021-07-22 5:56 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-22 6:37 ` Gavin Shan
2021-07-23 2:39 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-23 4:23 ` Gavin Shan
2021-07-19 13:06 ` [PATCH v3 08/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use struct pgtable_debug_args in PMD " Gavin Shan
2021-07-22 5:45 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-22 6:41 ` Gavin Shan
2021-07-22 7:11 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-23 1:00 ` Gavin Shan
2021-07-23 2:33 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-19 13:06 ` [PATCH v3 09/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use struct pgtable_debug_args in PUD " Gavin Shan
2021-07-22 5:39 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-22 6:47 ` Gavin Shan
2021-07-19 13:06 ` [PATCH v3 10/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Use struct pgtable_debug_args in PGD and P4D " Gavin Shan
2021-07-22 5:09 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-22 6:50 ` Gavin Shan
2021-07-19 13:06 ` [PATCH v3 11/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Remove unused code Gavin Shan
2021-07-22 4:51 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-22 6:53 ` Gavin Shan
2021-07-19 13:06 ` [PATCH v3 12/12] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Fix corrupted page flag Gavin Shan
2021-07-21 10:18 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-21 12:03 ` Gavin Shan [this message]
2021-07-22 3:51 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-07-22 6:54 ` Gavin Shan
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