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

Christophe Leroy christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Wed Jan 29 04:05:37 AEDT 2020



Le 28/01/2020 à 02:27, Anshuman Khandual a écrit :
> 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 at c-s.fr>		#PPC32

Also tested on PPC64 (under QEMU): book3s/64 64k pages, book3s/64 4k 
pages and book3e/64

> Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
> Suggested-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
> ---

[...]

> 
> 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 |

You can change the two above lines by

	powerpc: ok

> +    |       riscv: | TODO |
> +    |        s390: | TODO |
> +    |          sh: | TODO |
> +    |       sparc: | TODO |
> +    |          um: | TODO |
> +    |   unicore32: | TODO |
> +    |         x86: |  ok  |
> +    |      xtensa: | TODO |
> +    -----------------------

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> index 1ec34e16ed65..253dcab0bebc 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
> @@ -120,6 +120,7 @@ config PPC
>   	#
>   	select ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T if PPC32
>   	select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
> +	select ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE if PPC32

Remove the 'if PPC32' as we now know it also work on PPC64.

>   	select ARCH_HAS_DEVMEM_IS_ALLOWED
>   	select ARCH_HAS_ELF_RANDOMIZE
>   	select ARCH_HAS_FORTIFY_SOURCE

> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
> index 0b6c4042942a..fb0e76d254b3 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable_64.h
> @@ -53,6 +53,12 @@ static inline void sync_initial_page_table(void) { }
>   
>   struct mm_struct;
>   
> +#define mm_p4d_folded mm_p4d_folded
> +static inline bool mm_p4d_folded(struct mm_struct *mm)
> +{
> +	return !pgtable_l5_enabled();
> +}
> +

For me this should be part of another patch, it is not directly linked 
to the tests.

>   void set_pte_vaddr_p4d(p4d_t *p4d_page, unsigned long vaddr, pte_t new_pte);
>   void set_pte_vaddr_pud(pud_t *pud_page, unsigned long vaddr, pte_t new_pte);
>   
> diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> index 798ea36a0549..e0b04787e789 100644
> --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> @@ -1208,6 +1208,12 @@ static inline bool arch_has_pfn_modify_check(void)
>   # define PAGE_KERNEL_EXEC PAGE_KERNEL
>   #endif
>   
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE

Not sure it is a good idea to put that in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h

By doing this you are forcing a rebuild of almost all files, whereas 
only init/main.o and mm/debug_vm_pgtable.o should be rebuilt when 
activating this config option.

> +extern void debug_vm_pgtable(void);

Please don't use the 'extern' keyword, it is useless and not to be used 
for functions declaration.

> +#else
> +static inline void debug_vm_pgtable(void) { }
> +#endif
> +
>   #endif /* !__ASSEMBLY__ */
>   
>   #ifndef io_remap_pfn_range
> diff --git a/init/main.c b/init/main.c
> index da1bc0b60a7d..5e59e6ac0780 100644
> --- a/init/main.c
> +++ b/init/main.c
> @@ -1197,6 +1197,7 @@ static noinline void __init kernel_init_freeable(void)
>   	sched_init_smp();
>   
>   	page_alloc_init_late();
> +	debug_vm_pgtable();

Wouldn't it be better to call debug_vm_pgtable() in kernel_init() 
between the call to async_synchronise_full() and ftrace_free_init_mem() ?

>   	/* Initialize page ext after all struct pages are initialized. */
>   	page_ext_init();
>   
> diff --git a/lib/Kconfig.debug b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> index 5ffe144c9794..7cceae923c05 100644
> --- a/lib/Kconfig.debug
> +++ b/lib/Kconfig.debug
> @@ -653,6 +653,12 @@ config SCHED_STACK_END_CHECK
>   	  data corruption or a sporadic crash at a later stage once the region
>   	  is examined. The runtime overhead introduced is minimal.
>   
> +config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
> +	bool
> +	help
> +	  An architecture should select this when it can successfully
> +	  build and run DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE.
> +
>   config DEBUG_VM
>   	bool "Debug VM"
>   	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL
> @@ -688,6 +694,22 @@ config DEBUG_VM_PGFLAGS
>   
>   	  If unsure, say N.
>   
> +config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
> +	bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance"
> +	depends on MMU
> +	depends on DEBUG_VM

Does it really need to depend on DEBUG_VM ?
I think we could make it standalone and 'default y if DEBUG_VM' instead.

> +	depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
> +	default y
> +	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.
> +

Does it make sense to make it 'default y' and say 'If unsure, say N' ?

>   config ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
>   	bool
>   

Christophe


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