Patch series "mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Enhancements", v6.
There are a couple of issues with current implementations and this series
tries to resolve the issues:
(a) All needed information are scattered in variables, passed to various
test functions. The code is organized in pretty much relaxed fashion.
(b) The page isn't allocated from buddy during page table entry modifying
tests. The page can be invalid, conflicting to the implementations
of set_xxx_at() on ARM64. The target page is accessed so that the
iCache can be flushed when execution permission is given on ARM64.
Besides, the target page can be unmapped and accessing to it causes
kernel crash.
"struct pgtable_debug_args" is introduced to address issue (a). For issue
(b), the used page is allocated from buddy in page table entry modifying
tests. The corresponding tets will be skipped if we fail to allocate the
(huge) page. For other test cases, the original page around to kernel
symbol (@start_kernel) is still used.
The patches are organized as below. PATCH[2-10] could be combined to one
patch, but it will make the review harder:
PATCH[1] introduces "struct pgtable_debug_args" as place holder of all
needed information. With it, the old and new implementation
can coexist.
PATCH[2-10] uses "struct pgtable_debug_args" in various test functions.
PATCH[11] removes the unused code for old implementation.
PATCH[12] fixes the issue of corrupted page flag for ARM64
This patch (of 6):
In debug_vm_pgtable(), there are many local variables introduced to track
the needed information and they are passed to the functions for various
test cases. It'd better to introduce a struct as place holder for these
information. With it, what the tests functions need is the struct. In
this way, the code is simplified and easier to be maintained.
Besides, set_xxx_at() could access the data on the corresponding pages in
the page table modifying tests. So the accessed pages in the tests should
have been allocated from buddy. Otherwise, we're accessing pages that
aren't owned by us. This causes issues like page flag corruption or
kernel crash on accessing unmapped page when CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC is
enabled.
This introduces "struct pgtable_debug_args". The struct is initialized
and destroyed, but the information in the struct isn't used yet. It will
be used in subsequent patches.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210809092631.1888748-1-gshan@redhat.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210809092631.1888748-2-gshan@redhat.com
Signed-off-by: Gavin Shan <gshan@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Tested-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu> [powerpc 8xx]
Tested-by: Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@linux.ibm.com> [s390]
Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Qian Cai <cai@lca.pw>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com>
Cc: Chunyu Hu <chuhu@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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