From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.3 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFBB6C3A5A1 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 02:39:05 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [203.11.71.2]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 43C0020815 for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 02:39:05 +0000 (UTC) DMARC-Filter: OpenDMARC Filter v1.3.2 mail.kernel.org 43C0020815 Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=arm.com Authentication-Results: mail.kernel.org; spf=pass smtp.mailfrom=linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Received: from bilbo.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [IPv6:2401:3900:2:1::3]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46Gx5z0tZkzDqcv for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 12:39:03 +1000 (AEST) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=pass (mailfrom) smtp.mailfrom=arm.com (client-ip=217.140.110.172; helo=foss.arm.com; envelope-from=anshuman.khandual@arm.com; receiver=) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; dmarc=none (p=none dis=none) header.from=arm.com Received: from foss.arm.com (foss.arm.com [217.140.110.172]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 46Gx431rGmzDqbF for ; Mon, 26 Aug 2019 12:37:21 +1000 (AEST) Received: from usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (unknown [10.121.207.14]) by usa-sjc-mx-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 19249344; Sun, 25 Aug 2019 19:37:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.162.43.136] (p8cg001049571a15.blr.arm.com [10.162.43.136]) by usa-sjc-imap-foss1.foss.arm.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id E19513F718; Sun, 25 Aug 2019 19:37:09 -0700 (PDT) Subject: Re: [RFC V2 0/1] mm/debug: Add tests for architecture exported page table helpers To: Matthew Wilcox References: <1565335998-22553-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> <20190809101632.GM5482@bombadil.infradead.org> <20190809135202.GN5482@bombadil.infradead.org> From: Anshuman Khandual Message-ID: <7a88f6bb-e8c7-3ac7-2f92-1de752a01f33@arm.com> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 08:07:13 +0530 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:52.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/52.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20190809135202.GN5482@bombadil.infradead.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Mark Rutland , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Peter Zijlstra , James Hogan , Tetsuo Handa , Heiko Carstens , Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, Dave Hansen , Paul Mackerras , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, Russell King - ARM Linux , Steven Price , Jason Gunthorpe , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-snps-arc@lists.infradead.org, Kees Cook , Masahiro Yamada , Mark Brown , Dan Williams , Vlastimil Babka , Sri Krishna chowdary , Ard Biesheuvel , Greg Kroah-Hartman , linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, Ralf Baechle , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Paul Burton , Mike Rapoport , Vineet Gupta , Martin Schwidefsky , Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, "David S. Miller" Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" On 08/09/2019 07:22 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 04:05:07PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote: >> On 08/09/2019 03:46 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote: >>> On Fri, Aug 09, 2019 at 01:03:17PM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote: >>>> Should alloc_gigantic_page() be made available as an interface for general >>>> use in the kernel. The test module here uses very similar implementation from >>>> HugeTLB to allocate a PUD aligned memory block. Similar for mm_alloc() which >>>> needs to be exported through a header. >>> >>> Why are you allocating memory at all instead of just using some >>> known-to-exist PFNs like I suggested? >> >> We needed PFN to be PUD aligned for pfn_pud() and PMD aligned for mk_pmd(). >> Now walking the kernel page table for a known symbol like kernel_init() > > I didn't say to walk the kernel page table. I said to call virt_to_pfn() > for a known symbol like kernel_init(). > >> as you had suggested earlier we might encounter page table page entries at PMD >> and PUD which might not be PMD or PUD aligned respectively. It seemed to me >> that alignment requirement is applicable only for mk_pmd() and pfn_pud() >> which create large mappings at those levels but that requirement does not >> exist for page table pages pointing to next level. Is not that correct ? Or >> I am missing something here ? > > Just clear the bottom bits off the PFN until you get a PMD or PUD aligned > PFN. It's really not hard. As Mark pointed out earlier that might end up being just a synthetic PFN which might not even exist on a given system.