[PATCH V9] mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture page table helpers

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Tue Nov 12 17:52:45 AEDT 2019



On 11/12/2019 11:59 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com> wrote:
> 
>> +config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
>> +	bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance"
>> +	depends on MMU
>> +	depends on DEBUG_VM
>> +	depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
>> +	help
>> +	  This option provides a debug method which can be used to test
>> +	  architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in
>> +	  verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This
>> +	  will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or
>> +	  new additions of these helpers still conform to expected
>> +	  semantics of the generic MM.
>> +
>> +	  If unsure, say N.
> 
> Since CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is generally disabled in distro kernel packages, 
> why not make this 'default y' to maximize testing coverage? The code size 
> increase should be minimal, and DEBUG_VM increases size anyway.

Sure, will do.

> 
> Other than that this looks good to me:
> 
>   Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>

Thank you.

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 	Ingo
> 


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