Re: [PATCH] x86: fix virt_addr_valid() with CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y

["Vegard Nossum" <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>]

On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 10/01/2008 01:15 PM, Vegard Nossum wrote:
>> On Wed, Oct 1, 2008 at 1:06 PM, Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> x86_64 is screwed in the same way, isn't it?
>>
>> Hm. I didn't see any #ifdef CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL in the x86_64 code,
>> so I assumed it wasn't. But it seems that you are right (because the
>> checks, or at least some kind of checks, are _always_ performed on
>> x86_64 regardless of the CONFIG_DEBUG_VIRTUAL setting). Why doesn't
>> the checking in x86_64 code depend on DEBUG_VIRTUAL?
>
> Yeah, it does: VIRTUAL_BUG_ON depends on it...
>
> x86_64 just distinguish pointer to kernel image addresses (which are mapped only
> up to kernel image size from phys_base physical address) and whole physical
> memory map at another virtual address.

You are right.

But it seems that the current virt_addr_valid() doesn't take this into
account. Should virt_addr_valid() be modified (on both x86_32 and
x86_64) to take into account the same checks as __phys_addr() does
when DEBUG_VIRTUAL=y? Or is it enough to use pfn_valid()?


Vegard

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