[PATCH 1/2] arm64: Improve error reporting on set_pte_at() checks

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Wed Dec 9 09:26:56 PST 2015


Currently the BUG_ON() checks do not give enough information about the
PTEs being set. This patch changes BUG_ON to WARN_ONCE and dumps the
values of the old and new PTEs.

Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 11 +++++++----
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 7e074f93f383..002dc61a4dff 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -276,10 +276,13 @@ static inline void set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
 	 * hardware updates of the pte (ptep_set_access_flags safely changes
 	 * valid ptes without going through an invalid entry).
 	 */
-	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_DEBUG_VM) && IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM) &&
-	    pte_valid(*ptep)) {
-		BUG_ON(!pte_young(pte));
-		BUG_ON(pte_write(*ptep) && !pte_dirty(pte));
+	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_ARM64_HW_AFDBM) && pte_valid(*ptep)) {
+		VM_WARN_ONCE(!pte_young(pte),
+			     "%s: racy access flag clearing: %016llx -> %016llx",
+			     __func__, pte_val(*ptep), pte_val(pte));
+		VM_WARN_ONCE(pte_write(*ptep) && !pte_dirty(pte),
+			     "%s: racy dirty state clearing: %016llx -> %016llx",
+			     __func__, pte_val(*ptep), pte_val(pte));
 	}
 
 	set_pte(ptep, pte);



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