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From: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux-MM <linux-mm@kvack.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>,
	LinuxPPC-dev <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>,
	Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/10] mm: Convert p[te|md]_numa users to p[te|md]_protnone_numa
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 13:01:29 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h9xeh5im.fsf@linux.vnet.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1417473849.7182.9.camel@kernel.crashing.org>

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> writes:

> On Fri, 2014-11-21 at 13:57 +0000, Mel Gorman wrote:
>> void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
>>                 pte_t pte)
>>  {
>> -#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
>> -       WARN_ON(pte_val(*ptep) & _PAGE_PRESENT);
>> -#endif
>> +       /*
>> +        * When handling numa faults, we already have the pte marked
>> +        * _PAGE_PRESENT, but we can be sure that it is not in hpte.
>> +        * Hence we can use set_pte_at for them.
>> +        */
>> +       VM_WARN_ON((pte_val(*ptep) & (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_USER)) ==
>> +               (_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_USER));
>> +
>
> His is that going to fare with set_pte_at() called for kernel pages ?
>

Yes, we won't capture those errors now. But is there any other debug
check i could use to capture the wrong usage of set_pte_at ?

-aneesh

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-02  7:31 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-21 13:57 [PATCH 0/10] Replace _PAGE_NUMA with PAGE_NONE protections v3 Mel Gorman
2014-11-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 01/10] mm: numa: Do not dereference pmd outside of the lock during NUMA hinting fault Mel Gorman
2014-11-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 02/10] mm: Add p[te|md] protnone helpers for use by NUMA balancing Mel Gorman
2014-12-01 22:38   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-12-02 10:12     ` Mel Gorman
2014-11-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm: Convert p[te|md]_numa users to p[te|md]_protnone_numa Mel Gorman
2014-12-01 22:42   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-12-02  7:27     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-12-02 20:11       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-12-03 15:23         ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-12-03 15:52           ` Mel Gorman
2014-12-03 17:20             ` Aneesh Kumar K.V
2014-12-04 11:17               ` Mel Gorman
2014-12-03 21:01             ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-12-04 11:15               ` Mel Gorman
2014-12-01 22:44   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-12-02  7:31     ` Aneesh Kumar K.V [this message]
2014-12-02 20:13       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2014-11-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 04/10] ppc64: Add paranoid warnings for unexpected DSISR_PROTFAULT Mel Gorman
2014-11-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 05/10] mm: Convert p[te|md]_mknonnuma and remaining page table manipulations Mel Gorman
2014-11-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 06/10] mm: Remove remaining references to NUMA hinting bits and helpers Mel Gorman
2014-11-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 07/10] mm: numa: Do not trap faults on the huge zero page Mel Gorman
2014-11-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 08/10] x86: mm: Restore original pte_special check Mel Gorman
2014-11-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 09/10] mm: numa: Add paranoid check around pte_protnone_numa Mel Gorman
2014-11-21 13:57 ` [PATCH 10/10] mm: numa: Avoid unnecessary TLB flushes when setting NUMA hinting entries Mel Gorman
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2015-01-05 10:54 [PATCH 0/10] Replace _PAGE_NUMA with PAGE_NONE protections v5 Mel Gorman
2015-01-05 10:54 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm: Convert p[te|md]_numa users to p[te|md]_protnone_numa Mel Gorman
2014-12-04 11:24 [PATCH 0/10] Replace _PAGE_NUMA with PAGE_NONE protections v4 Mel Gorman
2014-12-04 11:24 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm: Convert p[te|md]_numa users to p[te|md]_protnone_numa Mel Gorman
2014-11-20 10:19 [PATCH 0/10] Replace _PAGE_NUMA with PAGE_NONE protections v2 Mel Gorman
2014-11-20 10:19 ` [PATCH 03/10] mm: Convert p[te|md]_numa users to p[te|md]_protnone_numa Mel Gorman
2014-11-20 10:38   ` David Laight
2014-11-20 10:47     ` Mel Gorman
2014-11-21  5:28   ` Aneesh Kumar K.V

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