[PATCH V14] mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture page table helpers

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Tue Mar 3 16:55:37 AEDT 2020



On 03/03/2020 01:10 AM, Qian Cai wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 10:51 -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
>> On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 15:45 +0100, Christophe Leroy wrote:
>>>
>>> Le 26/02/2020 à 15:09, Qian Cai a écrit :
>>>> On Mon, 2020-02-17 at 08:47 +0530, 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
>>>>> inside kernel_init() right after async_synchronize_full().
>>>>>
>>>>> This test gets built and run when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE is selected. Any
>>>>> architecture, which is willing to subscribe this test will need to select
>>>>> ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE. For now this is limited to arc, arm64, x86, s390
>>>>> and ppc32 platforms where the test is known to build and run successfully.
>>>>> Going forward, other architectures too can subscribe the test after fixing
>>>>> any build or runtime problems with their page table helpers. Meanwhile for
>>>>> better platform coverage, the test can also be enabled with CONFIG_EXPERT
>>>>> even without ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE.
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>>
>>>> How useful is this that straightly crash the powerpc?
>>>>
>>>> [   23.263425][    T1] debug_vm_pgtable: debug_vm_pgtable: Validating
>>>> architecture page table helpers
>>>> [   23.263625][    T1] ------------[ cut here ]------------
>>>> [   23.263649][    T1] kernel BUG at arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable.c:274!
>>>
>>> The problem on PPC64 is known and has to be investigated and fixed.
>>
>> It might be interesting to hear what powerpc64 maintainers would say about it
>> and if it is actually worth "fixing" in the arch code, but that BUG_ON() was
>> there since 2009 and had not been exposed until this patch comes alone?
> 
> This patch below makes it works on powerpc64 in order to dodge the BUG_ON()s in 
> assert_pte_locked() triggered by pte_clear_tests().
> 
> 
> diff --git a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
> index 96dd7d574cef..50b385233971 100644
> --- a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
> +++ b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
> @@ -55,6 +55,8 @@
>  #define RANDOM_ORVALUE	GENMASK(BITS_PER_LONG - 1, S390_MASK_BITS)
>  #define RANDOM_NZVALUE	GENMASK(7, 0)
>  
> +unsigned long vaddr;
> +
>  static void __init pte_basic_tests(unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t prot)
>  {
>  	pte_t pte = pfn_pte(pfn, prot);
> @@ -256,7 +258,7 @@ static void __init pte_clear_tests(struct mm_struct *mm,
> pte_t *ptep)
>  
>  	pte = __pte(pte_val(pte) | RANDOM_ORVALUE);
>  	WRITE_ONCE(*ptep, pte);
> -	pte_clear(mm, 0, ptep);
> +	pte_clear(mm, vaddr, ptep);
>  	pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
>  	WARN_ON(!pte_none(pte));
>  }
> @@ -310,8 +312,9 @@ void __init debug_vm_pgtable(void)
>  	pgtable_t saved_ptep;
>  	pgprot_t prot;
>  	phys_addr_t paddr;
> -	unsigned long vaddr, pte_aligned, pmd_aligned;
> +	unsigned long pte_aligned, pmd_aligned;
>  	unsigned long pud_aligned, p4d_aligned, pgd_aligned;
> +	spinlock_t *ptl;
>  
>  	pr_info("Validating architecture page table helpers\n");
>  	prot = vm_get_page_prot(VMFLAGS);
> @@ -344,7 +347,7 @@ void __init debug_vm_pgtable(void)
>  	p4dp = p4d_alloc(mm, pgdp, vaddr);
>  	pudp = pud_alloc(mm, p4dp, vaddr);
>  	pmdp = pmd_alloc(mm, pudp, vaddr);
> -	ptep = pte_alloc_map(mm, pmdp, vaddr);
> +	ptep = pte_alloc_map_lock(mm, pmdp, vaddr, &ptl);
>  
>  	/*
>  	 * Save all the page table page addresses as the page table
> @@ -370,7 +373,7 @@ void __init debug_vm_pgtable(void)
>  	p4d_clear_tests(mm, p4dp);
>  	pgd_clear_tests(mm, pgdp);
>  
> -	pte_unmap(ptep);
> +	pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);
>  
>  	pmd_populate_tests(mm, pmdp, saved_ptep);
>  	pud_populate_tests(mm, pudp, saved_pmdp);
> 

Below is slightly modified version of your change above and should still
prevent the bug on powerpc. Will it be possible for you to re-test this
? Once confirmed, will send a patch enabling this test on powerpc64
keeping your authorship. Thank you.

 mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c | 12 +++++++-----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
index 96dd7d574cef..c310f52c2b80 100644
--- a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
+++ b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
@@ -250,13 +250,14 @@ static void __init pgd_populate_tests(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgdp,
 }
 #endif

-static void __init pte_clear_tests(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep)
+static void __init pte_clear_tests(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep,
+                                  unsigned long vaddr)
 {
        pte_t pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);

        pte = __pte(pte_val(pte) | RANDOM_ORVALUE);
        WRITE_ONCE(*ptep, pte);
-       pte_clear(mm, 0, ptep);
+       pte_clear(mm, vaddr, ptep);
        pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
        WARN_ON(!pte_none(pte));
 }
@@ -302,6 +303,7 @@ static unsigned long __init get_random_vaddr(void)
 void __init debug_vm_pgtable(void)
 {
        struct mm_struct *mm;
+       spinlock_t *uninitialized_var(ptl);
        pgd_t *pgdp;
        p4d_t *p4dp, *saved_p4dp;
        pud_t *pudp, *saved_pudp;
@@ -344,7 +346,7 @@ void __init debug_vm_pgtable(void)
        p4dp = p4d_alloc(mm, pgdp, vaddr);
        pudp = pud_alloc(mm, p4dp, vaddr);
        pmdp = pmd_alloc(mm, pudp, vaddr);
-       ptep = pte_alloc_map(mm, pmdp, vaddr);
+       ptep = pte_alloc_map_lock(mm, pmdp, vaddr, &ptl);

        /*
         * Save all the page table page addresses as the page table
@@ -364,13 +366,13 @@ void __init debug_vm_pgtable(void)
        p4d_basic_tests(p4d_aligned, prot);
        pgd_basic_tests(pgd_aligned, prot);

-       pte_clear_tests(mm, ptep);
+       pte_clear_tests(mm, ptep, vaddr);
        pmd_clear_tests(mm, pmdp);
        pud_clear_tests(mm, pudp);
        p4d_clear_tests(mm, p4dp);
        pgd_clear_tests(mm, pgdp);

-       pte_unmap(ptep);
+       pte_unmap_unlock(ptep, ptl);

        pmd_populate_tests(mm, pmdp, saved_ptep);
        pud_populate_tests(mm, pudp, saved_pmdp);
-- 
2.20.1


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