Re: [PATCH V14] mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture page table helpers

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Wed Feb 26 2020 - 09:44:35 EST




Le 26/02/2020 Ã 15:12, Qian Cai a ÃcritÂ:
On Wed, 2020-02-26 at 09:09 -0500, Qian Cai wrote:
On Mon, 2020-02-17 at 08:47 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:

How useful is this that straightly crash the powerpc?

And then generate warnings on arm64,

[ÂÂ146.634626][ÂÂÂÂT1] debug_vm_pgtable: debug_vm_pgtable: Validating
architecture page table helpers
[ÂÂ146.643995][ÂÂÂÂT1] ------------[ cut here ]------------
[ÂÂ146.649350][ÂÂÂÂT1] virt_to_phys used for non-linear address:
(____ptrval____) (start_kernel+0x0/0x580)

Must be something wrong with the following in debug_vm_pgtable()

paddr = __pa(&start_kernel);

Is there any explaination why start_kernel() is not in linear memory on ARM64 ?

Christophe