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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 2/3] doc/vm: add information about page_table_check warn_on behavior
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On 7/22/23 16:15, Pasha Tatashin wrote:
> The default behavior of page table check was changed from panicking
> kernel to printing a warning.
>
> Add a note how to still panic the kernel when error is detected.
>
> Signed-off-by: Pasha Tatashin<pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
> ---
> Documentation/mm/page_table_check.rst | 5 +++--
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/mm/page_table_check.rst b/Documentation/mm/page_table_check.rst
> index c12838ce6b8d..f534c80ee9c9 100644
> --- a/Documentation/mm/page_table_check.rst
> +++ b/Documentation/mm/page_table_check.rst
> @@ -14,13 +14,14 @@ Page table check performs extra verifications at the time when new pages become
> accessible from the userspace by getting their page table entries (PTEs PMDs
> etc.) added into the table.
>
> -In case of detected corruption, the kernel is crashed. There is a small
> +In case of detected corruption, a warning is printed. There is a small
> performance and memory overhead associated with the page table check. Therefore,
> it is disabled by default, but can be optionally enabled on systems where the
> extra hardening outweighs the performance costs. Also, because page table check
> is synchronous, it can help with debugging double map memory corruption issues,
> by crashing kernel at the time wrong mapping occurs instead of later which is
> -often the case with memory corruptions bugs.
> +often the case with memory corruptions bugs. In order to crash kernel sysctl
> +panic_on_warn should be set to 1.

Better as:
In order to crash the kernel, the sysctl panic_on_warn should be set
to 1.

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