Re: [patch 2/2] [PATCH] mm: Save soft-dirty bits on file pages

[Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Aug 12, 2013 at 03:28:06PM -0700, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> >
> > You could have #undefed _mfrob and __frob after using them, but whatever.

Sure, for some reason I forgot to do that. Will send update on top.

> > I saved this patch to wave at the x86 guys for 3.12.  I plan to merge
> > mm-save-soft-dirty-bits-on-file-pages.patch for 3.11.
> >
> >> Guys, is there a reason for "if _PAGE_BIT_FILE < _PAGE_BIT_PROTNONE"
> >> test present in this pgtable-2level.h file at all? I can't imagine
> >> where it can be false on x86.
> >
> > I doubt if "Guys" read this.  x86 maintainers cc'ed.

Thanks!

> > +#define _mfrob(v,r,m,l)                ((((v) >> (r)) & (m)) << (l))
> > +#define __frob(v,r,l)          (((v) >> (r)) << (l))
> > +
> >  #ifdef CONFIG_MEM_SOFT_DIRTY
> 
> If I'm understanding this right, the idea is to take the bits in the
> range a..b of v and stick them at c..d, where a-b == c-d.  Would it
> make sense to change this to look something like
> 
> #define __frob(v, inmsb, inlsb, outlsb) ((v >> inlsb) & ((1<<(inmsb -
> inlsb + 1)-1) << outlsb)

There is a case when you don't need a mask completely. And because this
pte conversion is on hot path and time critical I kept generated code
as it was (even if that lead to slightly less clear source code).

> For extra fun, there could be an __unfrob macro that takes the same
> inmsg, inlsb, outlsb parameters but undoes it so that it's (more)
> clear that the operations that are supposed to be inverses are indeed
> inverses.

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