Re: [PATCH V9] mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture page table helpers

From: Ingo Molnar
Date: Tue Nov 12 2019 - 01:30:02 EST



* Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> +config DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
> + bool "Debug arch page table for semantics compliance"
> + depends on MMU
> + depends on DEBUG_VM
> + depends on ARCH_HAS_DEBUG_VM_PGTABLE
> + help
> + This option provides a debug method which can be used to test
> + architecture page table helper functions on various platforms in
> + verifying if they comply with expected generic MM semantics. This
> + will help architecture code in making sure that any changes or
> + new additions of these helpers still conform to expected
> + semantics of the generic MM.
> +
> + If unsure, say N.

Since CONFIG_DEBUG_VM is generally disabled in distro kernel packages,
why not make this 'default y' to maximize testing coverage? The code size
increase should be minimal, and DEBUG_VM increases size anyway.

Other than that this looks good to me:

Reviewed-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Ingo