On Wed, 18 Sep 2019 18:26:03 +0200 Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxx> wrote: [..] > My suggestion was not to completely drop the #ifdef but to do like you > did in pgd_clear_tests() for instance, ie to add the following test on > top of the function: > > if (mm_pud_folded(mm) || is_defined(__ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK)) > return; > Ah, very nice, this would also fix the remaining issues for s390. Since we have dynamic page table folding, neither __PAGETABLE_PXX_FOLDED nor __ARCH_HAS_XLEVEL_HACK is defined, but mm_pxx_folded() will work. mm_alloc() returns with a 3-level page table by default on s390, so we will run into issues in p4d_clear/populate_tests(), and also at the end with p4d/pud_free() (double free). So, adding the mm_pud_folded() check to p4d_clear/populate_tests(), and also adding mm_p4d/pud_folded() checks at the end before calling p4d/pud_free(), would make it all work on s390. BTW, regarding p4d/pud_free(), I'm not sure if we should rather check the folding inside our s390 functions, similar to how we do it for p4d/pud_free_tlb(), instead of relying on not being called for folded p4d/pud. So far, I see no problem with this behavior, all callers of p4d/pud_free() should be fine because of our folding check within p4d/pud_present/none(). But that doesn't mean that it is correct not to check for the folding inside p4d/pud_free(). At least, with this test module we do now have a caller of p4d/pud_free() on potentially folded entries, so instead of adding pxx_folded() checks to this test module, we could add them to our p4d/pud_free() functions. Any thoughts on this? Regards, Gerald