linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 0/4] mm/debug_vm

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Message-ID: <20200624144015.GD24934@oc3871087118.ibm.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Jun 2020 16:40:16 +0200
From:   Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>
Cc:     Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        christophe.leroy@....fr, ziy@...dia.com,
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        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 0/4] mm/debug_vm_pgtable: Add some more tests

On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 01:48:08PM +0200, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Jun 2020 13:05:39 +0200
> Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@...ux.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Jun 24, 2020 at 08:43:10AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > Hello Gerald/Christophe/Vineet,
> > > 
> > > It would be really great if you could give this series a quick test
> > > on s390/ppc/arc platforms respectively. Thank you.
> > 
> > That worked for me with the default and debug s390 configurations.
> > Would you like to try with some particular options or combinations
> > of the options?
> 
> It will be enabled automatically on all archs that set
> ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE, which we do for s390 unconditionally.
> Also, DEBUG_VM has to be set, which we have only in the debug config.
> So only the s390 debug config will have it enabled, you can check
> dmesg for "debug_vm_pgtable" to see when / where it was run, and if it
> triggered any warnings.

Yes, that is what I did ;)

I should have been more clear. I wonder whether Anshuman has in
mind other options which possibly makes sense to set or unset
and check how it goes with non-standard configurations.

> I also checked with the v3 series, and it works fine for s390.