From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] mm/hugetlb: Introduce HAVE_ARCH_CLEAR_HUGEPAGE_FLAGS References: <1586864670-21799-1-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> <1586864670-21799-4-git-send-email-anshuman.khandual@arm.com> <20200425175511.7a68efb5e2f4436fe0328c1d@linux-foundation.org> From: Anshuman Khandual Message-ID: <87d37591-caa2-b82b-392a-3a29b2c7e9a6@arm.com> Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 08:13:17 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20200425175511.7a68efb5e2f4436fe0328c1d@linux-foundation.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, Russell King , Catalin Marinas , Will Deacon , Tony Luck , Fenghua Yu , Thomas Bogendoerfer , "James E.J. Bottomley" , Helge Deller , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Paul Mackerras , Michael Ellerman , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Heiko Carstens , Vasily Gorbik , Christian Borntraeger , Yoshinori Sato , Rich Felker , "David S. Miller" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , "H. Peter Anvin" , Mike Kravetz , x86@kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, linux-mips@vger.kernel.org, linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/26/2020 06:25 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 17:14:30 +0530 Anshuman Khandual 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. > #endif > > And the various arch headers do > > static inline void arch_clear_hugepage_flags(struct page *page) > { > > } > #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. > >