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Patch series "mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Enhancements", v6. There are a couple of issues with current implementations and this series tries to resolve the issues: (a) All needed information are scattered in variables, passed to various test functions. The code is organized in pretty much relaxed fashion. (b) The page isn't allocated from buddy during page table entry modifying tests. The page can be invalid, conflicting to the implementations of set_xxx_at() on ARM64. The target page is accessed so that the iCache can be flushed when execution permission is given on ARM64. Besides, the target page can be unmapped and accessing to it causes kernel crash. "struct pgtable_debug_args" is introduced to address issue (a). For issue (b), the used page is allocated from buddy in page table entry modifying tests. The corresponding tets will be skipped if we fail to allocate the (huge) page. For other test cases, the original page around to kernel symbol (@start_kernel) is still used. The patches are organized as below. PATCH[2-10] could be combined to one patch, but it will make the review harder: PATCH[1] introduces "struct pgtable_debug_args" as place holder of all needed information. With it, the old and new implementation can coexist. PATCH[2-10] uses "struct pgtable_debug_args" in various test functions. PATCH[11] removes the unused code for old implementation. PATCH[12] fixes the issue of corrupted page flag for ARM64 This patch (of 6): In debug_vm_pgtable(), there are many local variables introduced to track the needed information and they are passed to the functions for various test cases. It'd better to introduce a struct as place holder for these information. With it, what the tests functions need is the struct. In this way, the code is simplified and easier to be maintained. Besides, set_xxx_at() could access the data on the corresponding pages in the page table modifying tests. So the accessed pages in the tests should have been allocated from buddy. Otherwise, we're accessing pages that aren't owned by us. This causes issues like page flag corruption or kernel crash on accessing unmapped page when CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is enabled. This introduces "struct pgtable_debug_args". The struct is initialized and destroyed, but the information in the struct isn't used yet. It will be used in subsequent patches. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210809092631.1888748-1-gshan@redhat.com Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210809092631.1888748-2-gshan@redhat.com Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com> Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Tested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> [powerpc 8xx] Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> [s390] Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> |
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Linux kernel ============ There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at: https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/ There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.