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Date:   Wed, 4 Nov 2020 10:42:55 +0100
From:   osalvador <osalvador@...e.de>
To:     David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Rashmica Gupta <rashmica.g@...il.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>,
        Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>,
        Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v1 2/4] powerpc/mm: print warning in
 arch_remove_linear_mapping()

On Thu, Oct 29, 2020 at 05:27:16PM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> Let's print a warning similar to in arch_add_linear_mapping() instead of
> WARN_ON_ONCE() and eventually crashing the kernel.
> 
> Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
> Cc: Rashmica Gupta <rashmica.g@...il.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>
> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.com>
> Cc: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.de>
> Cc: Wei Yang <richard.weiyang@...ux.alibaba.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
> index 8a86d81f8df0..685028451dd2 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/mem.c
> @@ -145,7 +145,9 @@ void __ref arch_remove_linear_mapping(u64 start, u64 size)
>  	flush_dcache_range_chunked(start, start + size, FLUSH_CHUNK_SIZE);
>  
>  	ret = remove_section_mapping(start, start + size);
> -	WARN_ON_ONCE(ret);
> +	if (ret)
> +		pr_warn("Unable to remove linear mapping for 0x%llx..0x%llx: %d\n",
> +			start, start + size, ret);

I guess the fear is to panic on systems that do have panic_on_warn (not
sure how many productions systems have this out there).
But anyway, being coherent with that, I think you should remove the WARN_ON
in hash__remove_section_mapping as well.

Besides that:

Reviewed-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@...e.

Not sure if the functions below that also have any sort of WARN_ON.
native_hpte_removebolted has a VM_WARN_ON, but that is on
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM so does not really matter.


-- 
Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3