From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
To: Christoph Lameter <cl@linux.com>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 34/34] mm: dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct page
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2013 01:26:53 +0300 (EEST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131014222653.86EE1E0090@blue.fi.intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00000141b90841a8-3fb61f1e-89aa-4a35-94d4-a264ac91462b-000000@email.amazonses.com>
Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>
> > Feel free to propose a patch. I don't see much point.
>
> Right now you are using a long to stand in for a spinlock_t or a pointer
> to a spinlock_t. An #ifdef would allow to define the proper type and
> therefore the compiler to check that the ptl is correctly used.
You should not use it directly anyway: page->ptl is not there at all if
USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS is 0. Compiler checks limited to few helpers and use
a kbuild hack is overkill to me.
--
Kirill A. Shutemov
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-10-14 22:26 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 117+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-10-10 18:05 [PATCH 00/34] dynamically allocate split ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct page Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 01/34] x86: add missed pgtable_pmd_page_ctor/dtor calls for preallocated pmds Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-11 5:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-11 5:50 ` Ingo Molnar
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 02/34] cris: fix potential NULL-pointer dereference Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-11 9:58 ` Jesper Nilsson
2013-10-11 9:58 ` Jesper Nilsson
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 03/34] m32r: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 04/34] xtensa: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 05/34] mm: allow pgtable_page_ctor() to fail Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 06/34] microblaze: add missing pgtable_page_ctor/dtor calls Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 07/34] mn10300: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 08/34] openrisc: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 09/34] alpha: handle pgtable_page_ctor() fail Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 10/34] arc: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-16 7:55 ` Vineet Gupta
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 11/34] arm: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 20:18 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2013-10-10 21:53 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 12/34] arm64: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 13/34] avr32: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 19:14 ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2013-10-10 19:14 ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 14/34] cris: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-11 9:57 ` Jesper Nilsson
2013-10-11 9:57 ` Jesper Nilsson
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 15/34] frv: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 16/34] hexagon: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 17/34] ia64: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 18/34] m32r: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 19/34] m68k: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-16 8:07 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-10-16 8:07 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-10-16 9:56 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-16 9:56 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-16 10:29 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-16 10:29 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 20/34] metag: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 21/34] mips: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 22/34] parisc: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 23/34] powerpc: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 24/34] s390: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 25/34] score: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-13 10:07 ` Lennox Wu
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 26/34] sh: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 27/34] sparc: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:33 ` David Miller
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 28/34] tile: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 19:50 ` Chris Metcalf
2013-10-10 19:50 ` Chris Metcalf
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 29/34] um: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 30/34] unicore32: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 31/34] x86: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 32/34] xtensa: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 33/34] iommu/arm-smmu: " Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-11 10:26 ` Will Deacon
2013-10-11 10:26 ` Will Deacon
2013-10-10 18:05 ` [PATCH 34/34] mm: dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct page Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 18:05 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 20:00 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-10 20:09 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-10 20:09 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-11 14:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-11 14:01 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-14 9:04 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-14 19:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-14 19:04 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-14 21:25 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-14 22:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-14 22:13 ` Christoph Lameter
2013-10-14 22:26 ` Kirill A. Shutemov [this message]
2013-11-20 8:44 ` Andrey Wagin
2013-11-20 8:44 ` Andrey Wagin
2013-11-20 12:53 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-11-20 12:56 ` Andrey Wagin
2013-11-20 12:56 ` Andrey Wagin
2013-11-20 13:06 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-11-20 13:06 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-11-20 13:29 ` Andrey Wagin
2013-10-10 19:47 ` [PATCH 00/34] dynamically allocate split ptl " Peter Zijlstra
2013-10-11 16:30 ` [PATCH 15/34] frv: handle pgtable_page_ctor() fail David Howells
2013-10-11 16:30 ` David Howells
2013-10-14 9:12 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-14 9:12 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
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