linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v16 13/25] mm: pagewalk: Don't lock PTEs for walk_page_range

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Date:   Tue, 10 Dec 2019 19:23:42 +0800
From:   kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>
To:     Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
Cc:     kbuild-all@...ts.01.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org, Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>,
        "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v16 13/25] mm: pagewalk: Don't lock PTEs for
 walk_page_range_novma()

Hi Steven,

I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on linus/master]
[also build test WARNING on v5.5-rc1 next-20191209]
[cannot apply to arm64/for-next/core tip/x86/mm]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help
improve the system. BTW, we also suggest to use '--base' option to specify the
base tree in git format-patch, please see https://stackoverflow.com/a/37406982]

url:    https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Steven-Price/Generic-page-walk-and-ptdump/20191208-035831
base:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git ad910e36da4ca3a1bd436989f632d062dda0c921
reproduce:
        # apt-get install sparse
        # sparse version: v0.6.1-101-g82dee2e-dirty
        make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig
        make C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__'

If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag
Reported-by: kbuild test robot <lkp@...el.com>


sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)

>> include/linux/spinlock.h:378:9: sparse: sparse: context imbalance in 'walk_pte_range' - unexpected unlock

vim +/walk_pte_range +378 include/linux/spinlock.h

c2f21ce2e31286 Thomas Gleixner 2009-12-02  375  
3490565b633c70 Denys Vlasenko  2015-07-13  376  static __always_inline void spin_unlock(spinlock_t *lock)
c2f21ce2e31286 Thomas Gleixner 2009-12-02  377  {
c2f21ce2e31286 Thomas Gleixner 2009-12-02 @378  	raw_spin_unlock(&lock->rlock);
c2f21ce2e31286 Thomas Gleixner 2009-12-02  379  }
c2f21ce2e31286 Thomas Gleixner 2009-12-02  380  

:::::: The code at line 378 was first introduced by commit
:::::: c2f21ce2e31286a0a32f8da0a7856e9ca1122ef3 locking: Implement new raw_spinlock

:::::: TO: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
:::::: CC: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>

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