[PATCH] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Fix build failure with powerpc 8xx

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Thu Jun 18 2020 - 10:31:37 EST


Since commit 9e343b467c70 ("READ_ONCE: Enforce atomicity for
{READ,WRITE}_ONCE() memory accesses"), READ_ONCE() cannot be used
anymore to read complex page table entries. This leads to:

CC mm/debug_vm_pgtable.o
In file included from ./include/asm-generic/bug.h:5,
from ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/bug.h:109,
from ./include/linux/bug.h:5,
from ./include/linux/mmdebug.h:5,
from ./include/linux/gfp.h:5,
from mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:13:
In function 'pte_clear_tests',
inlined from 'debug_vm_pgtable' at mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:363:2:
./include/linux/compiler.h:392:38: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_210' declared with attribute error: Unsupported access size for {READ,WRITE}_ONCE().
392 | _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __COUNTER__)
| ^
./include/linux/compiler.h:373:4: note: in definition of macro '__compiletime_assert'
373 | prefix ## suffix(); \
| ^~~~~~
./include/linux/compiler.h:392:2: note: in expansion of macro '_compiletime_assert'
392 | _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __COUNTER__)
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/compiler.h:405:2: note: in expansion of macro 'compiletime_assert'
405 | compiletime_assert(__native_word(t) || sizeof(t) == sizeof(long long), \
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
./include/linux/compiler.h:291:2: note: in expansion of macro 'compiletime_assert_rwonce_type'
291 | compiletime_assert_rwonce_type(x); \
| ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:249:14: note: in expansion of macro 'READ_ONCE'
249 | pte_t pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
| ^~~~~~~~~
make[2]: *** [mm/debug_vm_pgtable.o] Error 1

Fix it by using the recently added ptep_get() helper.

Fixes: 9e343b467c70 ("READ_ONCE: Enforce atomicity for {READ,WRITE}_ONCE() memory accesses")
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
index e45623016aea..61ab16fb2e36 100644
--- a/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
+++ b/mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c
@@ -246,13 +246,13 @@ static void __init pgd_populate_tests(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgdp,
static void __init pte_clear_tests(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep,
unsigned long vaddr)
{
- pte_t pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
+ pte_t pte = ptep_get(ptep);

pte = __pte(pte_val(pte) | RANDOM_ORVALUE);
set_pte_at(mm, vaddr, ptep, pte);
barrier();
pte_clear(mm, vaddr, ptep);
- pte = READ_ONCE(*ptep);
+ pte = ptep_get(ptep);
WARN_ON(!pte_none(pte));
}

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2.25.0