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

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Fri Jan 31 02:06:47 AEDT 2020


On 01/28/2020 06:57 AM, 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka at suse.cz>
> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh at linuxfoundation.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx at linutronix.de>
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at ziepe.ca>
> Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams at intel.com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko at kernel.org>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
> Cc: Steven Price <Steven.Price at arm.com>
> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> Cc: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro at socionext.com>
> Cc: Kees Cook <keescook at chromium.org>
> Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel at i-love.sakura.ne.jp>
> Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy at infradead.org>
> Cc: Sri Krishna chowdary <schowdary at nvidia.com>
> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen at intel.com>
> Cc: Russell King - ARM Linux <linux at armlinux.org.uk>
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba.org>
> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky at de.ibm.com>
> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens at de.ibm.com>
> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft.net>
> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta at synopsys.com>
> Cc: James Hogan <jhogan at kernel.org>
> Cc: Paul Burton <paul.burton at mips.com>
> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf at linux-mips.org>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill at shutemov.name>
> Cc: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer at de.ibm.com>
> Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
> Cc: linux-snps-arc at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-mips at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-ia64 at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
> Cc: linux-s390 at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: linux-sh at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: sparclinux at vger.kernel.org
> Cc: x86 at kernel.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org

I should have included mailing lists for all missing platforms here.
Will add them in the patch next time around but for now just adding
them here explicitly so that hopefully in case some of them can build
and run the test successfully on respective platforms.

ALPHA:

+ linux-alpha at vger.kernel.org
+ Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle.net>
+ Ivan Kokshaysky <ink at jurassic.park.msu.ru>
+ Matt Turner <mattst88 at gmail.com>

C6X:

+ linux-c6x-dev at linux-c6x.org
+ Mark Salter <msalter at redhat.com>
+ Aurelien Jacquiot <jacquiot.aurelien at gmail.com>

H8300:

+ uclinux-h8-devel at lists.sourceforge.jp
+ Yoshinori Sato <ysato at users.sourceforge.jp>

HEXAGON:

+ linux-hexagon at vger.kernel.org
+ Brian Cain <bcain at codeaurora.org>

M68K:

+ linux-m68k at lists.linux-m68k.org
+ Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>

MICROBLAZE:

+ Michal Simek <monstr at monstr.eu>

RISCV:

+ linux-riscv at lists.infradead.org
+ Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley at sifive.com>
+ Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at dabbelt.com>

UNICORE32:

+ Guan Xuetao <gxt at pku.edu.cn>

XTENSA:

+ linux-xtensa at linux-xtensa.org
+ Chris Zankel <chris at zankel.net>
+ Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc at gmail.com>

Please feel free to add others if I have missed.


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