Re: [PATCH v6 14/14] mm: Add basic tests for lazy_mmu

[IBM]

Ryan Roberts <ryan.robe...@arm.com> writes:

> On 17/12/2025 09:26, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
>> On 17/12/2025 05:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Mon, 15 Dec 2025 15:03:23 +0000 Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brod...@arm.com> 
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Add basic KUnit tests for the generic aspects of the lazy MMU mode:
>>>> ensure that it appears active when it should, depending on how
>>>> enable/disable and pause/resume pairs are nested.
>>> I needed this for powerpc allmodconfig;
>>>
>>> --- 
>>> a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_tlb.c~mm-add-basic-tests-for-lazy_mmu-fix
>>> +++ a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_tlb.c
>>> @@ -30,6 +30,7 @@
>>>  #include <trace/events/thp.h>
>>>  
>>>  DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct ppc64_tlb_batch, ppc64_tlb_batch);
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(ppc64_tlb_batch);
>>>  
>>>  /*
>>>   * A linux PTE was changed and the corresponding hash table entry
>>> @@ -154,6 +155,7 @@ void __flush_tlb_pending(struct ppc64_tl
>>>             flush_hash_range(i, local);
>>>     batch->index = 0;
>>>  }
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(__flush_tlb_pending);
>>>  
>>>  void hash__tlb_flush(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
>>>  {
>>> _
>> 
>> Oh indeed I hadn't considered that arch_{enter,leave}_lazy_mmu_mode()
>> refer to those symbols on powerpc... Maybe a bit overkill to export
>> those just for a test module, but I'm not sure there's a good
>> alternative. Forcing LAZY_MMU_MODE_KUNIT_TEST=y is ugly as it would also
>> force KUNIT=y. Alternatively we could depend on !PPC, not pretty either.
>
> Does EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT() help?
>

yes, that make sense. Thanks for the suggestion!
I guess we will need a diff like this in that case -


diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_tlb.c 
b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_tlb.c
index fbdeb8981ae7..ec2941cec815 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_tlb.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/book3s64/hash_tlb.c
@@ -25,11 +25,12 @@
 #include <asm/tlb.h>
 #include <asm/bug.h>
 #include <asm/pte-walk.h>
-
+#include <kunit/visibility.h>
 
 #include <trace/events/thp.h>
 
 DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct ppc64_tlb_batch, ppc64_tlb_batch);
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT(ppc64_tlb_batch);
 
 /*
  * A linux PTE was changed and the corresponding hash table entry
@@ -154,6 +155,7 @@ void __flush_tlb_pending(struct ppc64_tlb_batch *batch)
                flush_hash_range(i, local);
        batch->index = 0;
 }
+EXPORT_SYMBOL_IF_KUNIT(__flush_tlb_pending);
 
 void hash__tlb_flush(struct mmu_gather *tlb)
 {
diff --git a/mm/tests/lazy_mmu_mode_kunit.c b/mm/tests/lazy_mmu_mode_kunit.c
index 2720eb995714..340d7cda9096 100644
--- a/mm/tests/lazy_mmu_mode_kunit.c
+++ b/mm/tests/lazy_mmu_mode_kunit.c
@@ -69,3 +69,4 @@ kunit_test_suite(lazy_mmu_mode_test_suite);
 
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("Tests for the lazy MMU mode");
 MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
+MODULE_IMPORT_NS("EXPORTED_FOR_KUNIT_TESTING");


-ritesh