mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:860 warning triggered
David Hildenbrand
david at redhat.com
Mon Nov 6 20:06:03 AEDT 2023
On 06.11.23 07:06, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com> writes:
>> Hello Daniel,
>>
>> This test just ensures that PFN is preserved during pte <--> swap pte transformations
>> , and the warning here seems to have been caused by powerpc platform specific helpers
>> and/or its pte_t representation. Adding powerpc folks and platform mailing list here.
>
32bit swp_entry_t with 64bit pte is supported by making sure that we
never store a swap offset larger than what we can actually fit into the
swp_entry_t.
There is common code in place to handle that: see
generic_max_swapfile_size(), which does to conversion back and forth to
see how many bits of the offset actually survive the conversion.
> Doesn't the test need a similar treatment to:
>
> 2321ba3e3733 ("mm/debug_vm_pgtable: more pte_swp_exclusive() sanity checks")
>
> Which said:
> Especially, the pfn_pte() is dodgy when the swap PTE layout differs
> heavily from ordinary PTEs. Let's properly construct a swap PTE from swap
> type+offset.
Sounds reasonable to me.
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Cheers,
David / dhildenb
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