From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:46:11 +0200 From: Michal Hocko Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 2/2] mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture page table helpers Message-ID: <20191015114611.GC317@dhcp22.suse.cz> References: <1571131302-32290-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> <1571131302-32290-3-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1571131302-32290-3-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Anshuman Khandual Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton , Vlastimil Babka , Greg Kroah-Hartman , Thomas Gleixner , Mike Rapoport , Jason Gunthorpe , Dan Williams , Peter Zijlstra , Mark Rutland , Mark Brown , Steven Price , Ard Biesheuvel , Masahiro Yamada , Kees Cook , Tetsuo Handa , Matthew Wilcox , Sri Krishna chowdary , Dave Hansen , Russell King - ARM Linux , Michael Ellerman , Paul Mackerras , Martin Schwidefsky , Heiko Carstens , "David S. Miller" , Vineet Gupta , James Hogan , Paul Burton , Ralf Baechle , "Kirill A . Shutemov" , Gerald Schaefer , Christophe Leroy , linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue 15-10-19 14:51:42, 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. > > Test page table and memory pages creating it's entries at various level are > all allocated from system memory with required size and alignments. But if > memory pages with required size and alignment could not be allocated, then > all depending individual tests are just skipped afterwards. This test gets > called right after init_mm_internals() required for alloc_contig_range() to > work correctly. > > 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. A highlevel description of tests and what they are testing for would be really appreciated. Who wants to run these tests and why/when? What kind of bugs would get detected? In short why do we really need/want this code in the tree? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs