netdev - Re: [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG

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Date:   Fri, 20 Apr 2018 15:49:01 +0200
From:   Michal Hocko <mhocko@...nel.org>
To:     Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
Cc:     Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka@...hat.com>,
        David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        eric.dumazet@...il.com, edumazet@...gle.com,
        bhutchings@...arflare.com, netdev@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, mst@...hat.com, jasowang@...hat.com,
        virtualization@...ts.linux-foundation.org, dm-devel@...hat.com,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvmalloc: always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM

On Fri 20-04-18 06:41:36, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 20, 2018 at 03:08:52PM +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> > > In order to detect these bugs reliably I submit this patch that changes
> > > kvmalloc to always use vmalloc if CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is turned on.
> > 
> > No way. This is just wrong! First of all, you will explode most likely
> > on many allocations of small sizes. Second, CONFIG_DEBUG_VM tends to be
> > enabled quite often.
> 
> I think it'll still suit Mikulas' debugging needs if we always use
> vmalloc for sizes above PAGE_SIZE?

Even if that was the case then this doesn't sounds like CONFIG_DEBUG_VM
material. We do not want a completely different behavior when the config
is enabled. If we really need some better fallback testing coverage
then the fault injection, as suggested by Vlastimil, sounds much more
reasonable to me

-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs