Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm/hugetlb: Introduce HAVE_ARCH_CLEAR_HUGEPAGE_FLAGS

Anshuman Khandual
2020-05-05T02:52:18Z

On 04/26/2020 08:31 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 08:13:17 +0530 Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On 04/26/2020 06:25 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:14:30 +0530 Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> There are multiple similar definitions for arch_clear_hugepage_flags() on
>>>> various platforms. This introduces HAVE_ARCH_CLEAR_HUGEPAGE_FLAGS for those
>>>> platforms that need to define their own arch_clear_hugepage_flags() while
>>>> also providing a generic fallback definition for others to use. This help
>>>> reduce code duplication.
>>>>
>>>> ...
>>>>
>>>> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
>>>> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
>>>> @@ -544,6 +544,10 @@ static inline int is_hugepage_only_range(struct mm_struct *mm,
>>>> }
>>>> #endif
>>>>
>>>> +#ifndef HAVE_ARCH_CLEAR_HUGEPAGE_FLAGS
>>>> +static inline void arch_clear_hugepage_flags(struct page *page) { }
>>>> +#endif
>>>> +
>>>> #ifndef arch_make_huge_pte
>>>> static inline pte_t arch_make_huge_pte(pte_t entry, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>>>> struct page *page, int writable)
>>>
>>> This is the rather old-school way of doing it. The Linus-suggested way is
>>>
>>> #ifndef arch_clear_hugepage_flags
>>> static inline void arch_clear_hugepage_flags(struct page *page)
>>> {
>>> }
>>> #define arch_clear_hugepage_flags arch_clear_hugepage_flags
>>
>> Do we need that above line here ? Is not that implicit.
>
> It depends if other header files want to test whether
> arch_clear_hugepage_flags is already defined. If the header heorarchy
> is well-defined and working properly, they shouldn't need to, because
> we're reliably indluding the relevant arch header before (or early
> within) include/linux/hugetlb.h.
>
> It would be nice if
>
> #define arch_clear_hugepage_flags arch_clear_hugepage_flags
> #define arch_clear_hugepage_flags arch_clear_hugepage_flags
>
> were to generate an compiler error but it doesn't. If it did we could
> detect these incorrect inclusion orders.
>
>>> #endif
>>>
>>> And the various arch headers do
>>>
>>> static inline void arch_clear_hugepage_flags(struct page *page)
>>> {
>>> <some implementation>
>>> }
>>> #define arch_clear_hugepage_flags arch_clear_hugepage_flags
>>>
>>> It's a small difference - mainly to avoid adding two variables to the
>>> overall namespace where one would do.
>>
>> Understood, will change and resend.
>
> That's OK - I've queued up that fix.
>

Hello Andrew,

I might not have searched all the relevant trees or might have just searched
earlier than required. But I dont see these patches (or your proposed fixes)
either in mmotm (2020-04-29-23-04) or in next-20200504. Wondering if you are
waiting on a V2 for this series accommodating the changes you had proposed.

- Anshuman