Re: [PATCH V12] mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture page table helpers

Gerald Schaefer
2020-01-29T22:20:47Z

On Tue, 28 Jan 2020 06:57:53 +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.
>
> 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.
>

[...]

>
> Tested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr> #PPC32

Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> # s390

Thanks again for this effort, and for keeping up the spirit against
all odds and even after 12 iterations :-)

>
> diff --git a/Documentation/features/debug/debug-vm-pgtable/arch-support.txt b/Documentation/features/debug/debug-vm-pgtable/arch-support.txt
> new file mode 100644
> index 000000000000..f3f8111edbe3
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/Documentation/features/debug/debug-vm-pgtable/arch-support.txt
> @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
> +#
> +# Feature name: debug-vm-pgtable
> +# Kconfig: ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
> +# description: arch supports pgtable tests for semantics compliance
> +#
> + -----------------------
> + | arch |status|
> + -----------------------
> + | alpha: | TODO |
> + | arc: | ok |
> + | arm: | TODO |
> + | arm64: | ok |
> + | c6x: | TODO |
> + | csky: | TODO |
> + | h8300: | TODO |
> + | hexagon: | TODO |
> + | ia64: | TODO |
> + | m68k: | TODO |
> + | microblaze: | TODO |
> + | mips: | TODO |
> + | nds32: | TODO |
> + | nios2: | TODO |
> + | openrisc: | TODO |
> + | parisc: | TODO |
> + | powerpc/32: | ok |
> + | powerpc/64: | TODO |
> + | riscv: | TODO |
> + | s390: | TODO |

s390 is ok now, with my patches included in v5.5-rc1. So you can now add

--- a/Documentation/features/debug/debug-vm-pgtable/arch-support.txt
+++ b/Documentation/features/debug/debug-vm-pgtable/arch-support.txt
@@ -25,7 +25,7 @@
| powerpc/32: | ok |
| powerpc/64: | TODO |
| riscv: | TODO |
- | s390: | TODO |
+ | s390: | ok |
| sh: | TODO |
| sparc: | TODO |
| um: | TODO |
--- a/arch/s390/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/s390/Kconfig
@@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ config KASAN_SHADOW_OFFSET
config S390
def_bool y
select ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_STATE
+ select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE