[PATCH v3 03/13] mm/debug_vm_pgtable/ppc64: Avoid setting top bits in radom value
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com
Tue Sep 1 02:21:05 EDT 2020
On 9/1/20 8:45 AM, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>
>
> On 08/27/2020 01:34 PM, Aneesh Kumar K.V wrote:
>> ppc64 use bit 62 to indicate a pte entry (_PAGE_PTE). Avoid setting that bit in
>> random value.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar at linux.ibm.com>
>> ---
>> mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c | 13 ++++++++++---
>> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
>> index 086309fb9b6f..bbf9df0e64c6 100644
>> --- a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
>> +++ b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
>> @@ -44,10 +44,17 @@
>> * entry type. But these bits might affect the ability to clear entries with
>> * pxx_clear() because of how dynamic page table folding works on s390. So
>> * while loading up the entries do not change the lower 4 bits. It does not
>> - * have affect any other platform.
>> + * have affect any other platform. Also avoid the 62nd bit on ppc64 that is
>> + * used to mark a pte entry.
>> */
>> -#define S390_MASK_BITS 4
>> -#define RANDOM_ORVALUE GENMASK(BITS_PER_LONG - 1, S390_MASK_BITS)
>> +#define S390_SKIP_MASK GENMASK(3, 0)
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
>> +#define PPC64_SKIP_MASK GENMASK(62, 62)
>> +#else
>> +#define PPC64_SKIP_MASK 0x0
>> +#endif
>
> Please drop the #ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64 here. We already accommodate skip
> bits for a s390 platform requirement and can also do so for ppc64 as well. As
> mentioned before, please avoid adding any platform specific constructs in the
> test.
>
that is needed so that it can be built on 32 bit architectures.I did
face build errors with arch-linux
>> +#define ARCH_SKIP_MASK (S390_SKIP_MASK | PPC64_SKIP_MASK)
>> +#define RANDOM_ORVALUE (GENMASK(BITS_PER_LONG - 1, 0) & ~ARCH_SKIP_MASK)
>> #define RANDOM_NZVALUE GENMASK(7, 0)
>
> Please fix the alignments here. Feel free to consider following changes after
> this patch.
>
> diff --git a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
> index 122416464e0f..f969031152bb 100644
> --- a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
> +++ b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
> @@ -48,14 +48,11 @@
> * have affect any other platform. Also avoid the 62nd bit on ppc64 that is
> * used to mark a pte entry.
> */
> -#define S390_SKIP_MASK GENMASK(3, 0)
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC_BOOK3S_64
> -#define PPC64_SKIP_MASK GENMASK(62, 62)
> -#else
> -#define PPC64_SKIP_MASK 0x0
> -#endif
> -#define ARCH_SKIP_MASK (S390_SKIP_MASK | PPC64_SKIP_MASK)
> -#define RANDOM_ORVALUE (GENMASK(BITS_PER_LONG - 1, 0) & ~ARCH_SKIP_MASK)
> +#define S390_SKIP_MASK GENMASK(3, 0)
> +#define PPC64_SKIP_MASK GENMASK(62, 62)
> +#define ARCH_SKIP_MASK (S390_SKIP_MASK | PPC64_SKIP_MASK)
> +#define RANDOM_ORVALUE (GENMASK(BITS_PER_LONG - 1, 0) & ~ARCH_SKIP_MASK)
> +
> #define RANDOM_NZVALUE GENMASK(7, 0)
>
>>
>> static void __init pte_basic_tests(unsigned long pfn, pgprot_t prot)
>>
>
> Besides, there is also one checkpatch.pl warning here.
>
> WARNING: Possible unwrapped commit description (prefer a maximum 75 chars per line)
> #7:
> ppc64 use bit 62 to indicate a pte entry (_PAGE_PTE). Avoid setting that bit in
>
> total: 0 errors, 1 warnings, 20 lines checked
>
These warnings are not valid. They are mostly long lines (upto 100) . or
some details mentioned in the () as above.
-aneesh
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