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

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Wed Mar 04 2020 - 01:49:08 EST




Le 04/03/2020 Ã 02:39, Qian Cai a ÃcritÂ:

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.

This works fine on radix MMU but I decided to go a bit future to test hash
MMU. The kernel will stuck here below. I did confirm that pte_alloc_map_lock()
was successful, so I donât understand hash MMU well enough to tell why
it could still take an interrupt at pte_clear_tests() even before we calls
pte_unmap_unlock()?

AFAIU, you are not taking an interrupt here. You are stuck in the pte_update(), most likely due to nested locks. Try with LOCKDEP ?

Christophe


[ 33.881515][ T1] ok 8 - property-entry
[ 33.883653][ T1] debug_vm_pgtable: debug_vm_pgtable: Validating
architecture page table helpers
[ 60.418885][ C8] watchdog: BUG: soft lockup - CPU#8 stuck for 23s!
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