linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: ptdump: Fix build failure

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Message-ID: <c6c50422-9566-8667-0ad6-627c51c9b7aa@arm.com>
Date:   Fri, 16 Apr 2021 09:42:14 +0100
From:   Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: ptdump: Fix build failure

On 15/04/2021 10:31, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 	  CC      mm/ptdump.o
> 	In file included from <command-line>:
> 	mm/ptdump.c: In function 'ptdump_pte_entry':
> 	././include/linux/compiler_types.h:320:38: error: call to '__compiletime_assert_207' declared with attribute error: Unsupported access size for {READ,WRITE}_ONCE().
> 	  320 |  _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __COUNTER__)
> 	      |                                      ^
> 	././include/linux/compiler_types.h:301:4: note: in definition of macro '__compiletime_assert'
> 	  301 |    prefix ## suffix();    \
> 	      |    ^~~~~~
> 	././include/linux/compiler_types.h:320:2: note: in expansion of macro '_compiletime_assert'
> 	  320 |  _compiletime_assert(condition, msg, __compiletime_assert_, __COUNTER__)
> 	      |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 	./include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:36:2: note: in expansion of macro 'compiletime_assert'
> 	   36 |  compiletime_assert(__native_word(t) || sizeof(t) == sizeof(long long), \
> 	      |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 	./include/asm-generic/rwonce.h:49:2: note: in expansion of macro 'compiletime_assert_rwonce_type'
> 	   49 |  compiletime_assert_rwonce_type(x);    \
> 	      |  ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 	mm/ptdump.c:114:14: note: in expansion of macro 'READ_ONCE'
> 	  114 |  pte_t val = READ_ONCE(*pte);
> 	      |              ^~~~~~~~~
> 	make[2]: *** [mm/ptdump.o] Error 1
> 
> READ_ONCE() cannot be used for reading PTEs. Use ptep_get()
> instead. See commit 481e980a7c19 ("mm: Allow arches to provide ptep_get()")
> and commit c0e1c8c22beb ("powerpc/8xx: Provide ptep_get() with 16k pages")
> for details.

It was cargo-culted from the arm64/x86 implementations (where this 
happens to be safe).

> Fixes: 30d621f6723b ("mm: add generic ptdump")
> Cc: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>

Reviewed-by: Steven Price <steven.price@....com>

Thanks,

Steve

> ---
>   mm/ptdump.c | 2 +-
>   1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/ptdump.c b/mm/ptdump.c
> index 4354c1422d57..da751448d0e4 100644
> --- a/mm/ptdump.c
> +++ b/mm/ptdump.c
> @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ static int ptdump_pte_entry(pte_t *pte, unsigned long addr,
>   			    unsigned long next, struct mm_walk *walk)
>   {
>   	struct ptdump_state *st = walk->private;
> -	pte_t val = READ_ONCE(*pte);
> +	pte_t val = ptep_get(pte);
>   
>   	if (st->effective_prot)
>   		st->effective_prot(st, 4, pte_val(val));
>