From: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
To: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH V8] mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture page table helpers
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2019 08:40:57 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d9487d9b-7f23-6311-f432-d2271b961f00@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191105203638.6889a994@thinkpad>
On 11/06/2019 01:06 AM, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:59:22 +0530
> Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> wrote:
>
>> This adds tests which will validate architecture page table helpers and
>> other accessors in their compliance with expected generic MM semantics.
>> This will help various architectures in validating changes to existing
>> page table helpers or addition of new ones.
>>
>> This test covers basic page table entry transformations including but not
>> limited to old, young, dirty, clean, write, write protect etc at various
>> level along with populating intermediate entries with next page table page
>> and validating them.
>>
>> Test page table pages are allocated from system memory with required size
>> and alignments. The mapped pfns at page table levels are derived from a
>> real pfn representing a valid kernel text symbol. This test gets called
>> right after page_alloc_init_late().
>>
>> This gets build and run when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE is selected along with
>> CONFIG_VM_DEBUG. Architectures willing to subscribe this test also need to
>> select CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE which for now is limited to x86 and
>> arm64. Going forward, other architectures too can enable this after fixing
>> build or runtime problems (if any) with their page table helpers.
>
> I've prepared a couple of commits to our arch code to make this work on s390,
> they will go upstream in the next merge window. After that, we can add s390
> to the supported architectures.
Thats good.
>
> We had some issues, e.g. because we do not report large entries as bad in
> pxd_bad(), do not check for folded page tables in pxd_free(), or assume
> that primitives like pmd_mkdirty() will only be called after pmd_mkhuge().
> None of those should have any impact on current code, but your test module
> revealed that we do not behave like other architectures in some aspects,
> and it's good to find and fix such things to prevent possible future issues.
Right and those s390 fixes are the testimony for the usefulness of this test.
>
> Thanks a lot for the effort!
>
> Regards,
> Gerald
>
>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-06 3:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-28 5:29 [PATCH V8] mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture page table helpers Anshuman Khandual
2019-10-29 10:31 ` Qian Cai
2019-11-04 2:15 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-11-05 0:00 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-11-05 0:30 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-11-05 19:36 ` Gerald Schaefer
2019-11-06 3:10 ` Anshuman Khandual [this message]
2019-11-06 3:22 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-11-06 6:41 ` Christophe Leroy
2019-11-06 7:34 ` Anshuman Khandual
2019-11-07 12:54 ` Michael Ellerman
2019-11-07 13:22 ` Anshuman Khandual
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