Re: [PATCH 1/1] x86: fix text_poke

[Andi Kleen]

On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 12:36:33PM -0700, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Apr 2008, Andi Kleen wrote:
> 
> > > And we should really add a lot more sanity checking there.
> > 
> > A debug mode for virt_to_page(),__pa,__va et.al. would probably make sense
> > and would have caught it.
> > 
> > I used to have that partly in the x86-64 port with VIRTUAL_BUG_ON.
> 
> Good idea! Do you have a patch?

Yes. Appended. But it just enables the old NUMA VIRTUAL_BUG_ON()s, more 
work could be done e.g. by instrumenting pa/va and the non NUMA and i386 
case too.

-Andi

---


Add CONFIG option to enable VIRTUAL_BUG_ON()

VIRTUAL_BUG_ON was used in the early days of x86-64 NUMA to debug the 
virtual address to struct page code.

Later it was noped, but the call kept intact.

Add a CONFIG option to enable it as a BUG_ON again. This would have
likely caught the recent text_poke bug.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <andi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Index: linux/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
+++ linux/arch/x86/Kconfig.debug
@@ -245,4 +245,11 @@ config CPA_DEBUG
 	help
 	  Do change_page_attr() self-tests every 30 seconds.
 
+config DEBUG_VIRTUAL
+	bool "Virtual memory translation debugging"
+	depends on DEBUG_KERNEL && NUMA && X86_64
+	help
+	  Enable some costly sanity checks in the NUMA virtual to page
+          code.  This can catch mistakes with virt_to_page() and friends.
+
 endmenu
Index: linux/include/asm-x86/mmzone_64.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/include/asm-x86/mmzone_64.h
+++ linux/include/asm-x86/mmzone_64.h
@@ -7,7 +7,11 @@
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL
+#define VIRTUAL_BUG_ON(x) BUG_ON(x)
+#else
 #define VIRTUAL_BUG_ON(x)
+#endif
 
 #include <asm/smp.h>
 
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