> On Oct 28, 2019, at 1:29 AM, Anshuman Khandual <Anshuman.Khandual@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > This adds tests which will validate architecture page table helpers and > other accessors in their compliance with expected generic MM semantics. > This will help various architectures in validating changes to existing > page table helpers or addition of new ones. > > This test covers basic page table entry transformations including but not > limited to old, young, dirty, clean, write, write protect etc at various > level along with populating intermediate entries with next page table page > and validating them. > > Test page table pages are allocated from system memory with required size > and alignments. The mapped pfns at page table levels are derived from a > real pfn representing a valid kernel text symbol. This test gets called > right after page_alloc_init_late(). > > This gets build and run when CONFIG_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE is selected along with > CONFIG_VM_DEBUG. Architectures willing to subscribe this test also need to > select CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE which for now is limited to x86 and > arm64. Going forward, other architectures too can enable this after fixing > build or runtime problems (if any) with their page table helpers. > > Folks interested in making sure that a given platform's page table helpers > conform to expected generic MM semantics should enable the above config > which will just trigger this test during boot. Any non conformity here will > be reported as an warning which would need to be fixed. This test will help > catch any changes to the agreed upon semantics expected from generic MM and > enable platforms to accommodate it thereafter. This looks like a perfect candidate to streamline with the new kunit framework, no?
