From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2020 08:22:30 +0000 Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] mm: remove __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK Message-Id: <20200216082230.GV25745@shell.armlinux.org.uk> List-Id: References: <20200216081843.28670-1-rppt@kernel.org> In-Reply-To: <20200216081843.28670-1-rppt@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Rapoport Cc: Rich Felker , linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-sh@vger.kernel.org, Benjamin Herrenschmidt , linux-mm@kvack.org, Paul Mackerras , linux-hexagon@vger.kernel.org, Will Deacon , kvmarm@lists.cs.columbia.edu, Jonas Bonn , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Brian Cain , Marc Zyngier , Ley Foon Tan , Mike Rapoport , Catalin Marinas , uclinux-h8-devel@lists.sourceforge.jp, Fenghua Yu , Arnd Bergmann , kvm-ppc@vger.kernel.org, Stefan Kristiansson , openrisc@lists.librecores.org, Stafford Horne , Guan Xuetao , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, Christophe Leroy , Tony Luck , Yoshinori Sato , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Michael Ellerman , nios2-dev@lists.rocketboards.org, Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 10:18:30AM +0200, Mike Rapoport wrote: > From: Mike Rapoport > > Hi, > > These patches convert several architectures to use page table folding and > remove __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK along with include/asm-generic/5level-fixup.h. > > The changes are mostly about mechanical replacement of pgd accessors with p4d > ones and the addition of higher levels to page table traversals. > > All the patches were sent separately to the respective arch lists and > maintainers hence the "v2" prefix. You fail to explain why this change which adds 488 additional lines of code is desirable. -- RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/ FTTC broadband for 0.8mile line in suburbia: sync at 12.1Mbps down 622kbps up According to speedtest.net: 11.9Mbps down 500kbps up