Re: [PATCH V3] selftests: vm: Add test for Soft-Dirty PTE bit

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On 3/3/22 11:39 AM, Gabriel Krisman Bertazi wrote:
Shuah Khan <skhan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

On 2/28/22 2:37 AM, David Hildenbrand wrote:
On 24.02.22 22:23, Muhammad Usama Anjum wrote:
This introduces three tests:
1) Sanity check soft dirty basic semantics: allocate area, clean, dirty,
check if the SD bit flipped.
2) Check VMA reuse: validate the VM_SOFTDIRTY usage
3) Check soft-dirty on huge pages

This was motivated by Will Deacon's fix commit 912efa17e512 ("mm: proc:
Invalidate TLB after clearing soft-dirty page state"). I was tracking the
same issue that he fixed, and this test would have caught it.

A note that madv_populate.c already contains some SOFTDIRTY tests
regarding MADV_POPULATE. Eventually we want to factor out
softdirty/pagemap handling+checks for easier reuse.


Is this patch unnecessary then?

It is not unnecessary since the madv test doesn't cover the bug tested
here, afaik.  But, as mentioned when I originally submitted this patch,
it should be merged into selftests/vm/madv_populate.c or, at least,
reuse that existing infrastructure.

https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/87lf553z5g.fsf@xxxxxxxxxxxxx/


Oops this one came in a few months ago and appears to have slipped
through and didn't get the right attention. Sorry about that.

Please resend the patch and cc all the everybody on this thread.

I would like to have your patch reviewed and looked at first. This
patch needs rework sine it has several comments to be addressed.

thanks,
-- Shuah



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