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Subject: Re: [PATCH V14] mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture page
 table helpers
From:   Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>,
        linux-mm@kvack.org
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On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 10:51 -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 15:45 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > 
> > Le 26/02/2020 à 15:09, Qian Cai a écrit :
> > > On Mon, 2020-02-17 at 08:47 +0530, Anshuman Khandual 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
> > > > inside kernel_init() right after async_synchronize_full().
> > > > 
> > > > This test gets built and run when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE is selected. Any
> > > > architecture, which is willing to subscribe this test will need to select
> > > > ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. For now this is limited to arc, arm64, x86, s390
> > > > and ppc32 platforms where the test is known to build and run successfully.
> > > > Going forward, other architectures too can subscribe the test after fixing
> > > > any build or runtime problems with their page table helpers. Meanwhile for
> > > > better platform coverage, the test can also be enabled with CONFIG_EXPERT
> > > > even without ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE.
> > > > 
> > > > Folks interested in making sure that a given platform's page table helpers
> > > > conform to expected generic MM semantics should enable the above config
> > > > which will just trigger this test during boot. Any non conformity here will
> > > > be reported as an warning which would need to be fixed. This test will help
> > > > catch any changes to the agreed upon semantics expected from generic MM and
> > > > enable platforms to accommodate it thereafter.
> > > 
> > > How useful is this that straightly crash the powerpc?
> > > 
> > > [   23.263425][    T1] debug_vm_pgtable: debug_vm_pgtable: Validating
> > > architecture page table helpers
> > > [   23.263625][    T1] ------------[ cut here ]------------
> > > [   23.263649][    T1] kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:274!
> > 
> > The problem on PPC64 is known and has to be investigated and fixed.
> 
> It might be interesting to hear what powerpc64 maintainers would say about it
> and if it is actually worth "fixing" in the arch code, but that BUG_ON() was
> there since 2009 and had not been exposed until this patch comes alone?

This patch below makes it works on powerpc64 in order to dodge the BUG_ON()s in 
assert_pte_locked() triggered by pte_clear_tests().


diff --git a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
index 96dd7d574cef..50b385233971 100644
--- a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
+++ b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
@@ -55,6 +55,8 @@
 #define RANDOM_ORVALUE	GENMASK(BITS_PER_LONG - 1, S390_MASK_BITS)
 #define RANDOM_NZVALUE	GENMASK(7, 0)
 
+unsigned long vaddr;
+
 static void __init pte_basic_tests(unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t prot)
 {
 	pte_t pte = pfn_pte(pfn, prot);
@@ -256,7 +258,7 @@ static void __init pte_clear_tests(struct mm_struct *mm,
pte_t *ptep)
 
 	pte = __pte(pte_val(pte) | RANDOM_ORVALUE);
 	WRITE_ONCE(*ptep, pte);
-	pte_clear(mm, 0, ptep);
+	pte_clear(mm, vaddr, ptep);
 	pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
 	WARN_ON(!pte_none(pte));
 }
@@ -310,8 +312,9 @@ void __init debug_vm_pgtable(void)
 	pgtable_t saved_ptep;
 	pgprot_t prot;
 	phys_addr_t paddr;
-	unsigned long vaddr, pte_aligned, pmd_aligned;
+	unsigned long pte_aligned, pmd_aligned;
 	unsigned long pud_aligned, p4d_aligned, pgd_aligned;
+	spinlock_t *ptl;
 
 	pr_info("Validating architecture page table helpers\n");
 	prot = vm_get_page_prot(VMFLAGS);
@@ -344,7 +347,7 @@ void __init debug_vm_pgtable(void)
 	p4dp = p4d_alloc(mm, pgdp, vaddr);
 	pudp = pud_alloc(mm, p4dp, vaddr);
 	pmdp = pmd_alloc(mm, pudp, vaddr);
-	ptep = pte_alloc_map(mm, pmdp, vaddr);
+	ptep = pte_alloc_map_lock(mm, pmdp, vaddr, &ptl);
 
 	/*
 	 * Save all the page table page addresses as the page table
@@ -370,7 +373,7 @@ void __init debug_vm_pgtable(void)
 	p4d_clear_tests(mm, p4dp);
 	pgd_clear_tests(mm, pgdp);
 
-	pte_unmap(ptep);
+	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
 
 	pmd_populate_tests(mm, pmdp, saved_ptep);
 	pud_populate_tests(mm, pudp, saved_pmdp);