From: Reza Arbab <arbab@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
To: Balbir Singh <bsingharora@gmail.com>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
"Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
Alistair Popple <apopple@au1.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 4/4] powerpc/mm: unstub radix__vmemmap_remove_mapping()
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 12:36:53 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20170117183653.7bd62joj5yog5yca@arbab-vm> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20170117072513.GE8963@dhcp-9-109-223-248.in.ibm.com>
On Tue, Jan 17, 2017 at 12:55:13PM +0530, Balbir Singh wrote:
>On Mon, Jan 16, 2017 at 01:07:46PM -0600, Reza Arbab wrote:
>> Use remove_pagetable() and friends for radix vmemmap removal.
>>
>> We do not require the special-case handling of vmemmap done in the x86
>> versions of these functions. This is because vmemmap_free() has already
>> freed the mapped pages, and calls us with an aligned address range.
>>
>> So, add a few failsafe WARNs, but otherwise the code to remove physical
>> mappings is already sufficient for vmemmap.
>
>I wonder if we really need them?
Not sure what the guideline is for a "this shouldn't happen" WARN. It
could save us some grief, should our vmemmap code ever start calling
with an unaligned range, like it does on x86.
--
Reza Arbab
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-01-17 18:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-01-16 19:07 [PATCH v5 0/4] powerpc/mm: enable memory hotplug on radix Reza Arbab
2017-01-16 19:07 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] powerpc/mm: refactor radix physical page mapping Reza Arbab
2017-01-17 6:46 ` Balbir Singh
2017-01-17 18:34 ` Reza Arbab
2017-01-18 1:14 ` Balbir Singh
2017-01-30 8:38 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-01-30 17:28 ` Reza Arbab
2017-01-30 21:58 ` Michael Ellerman
2017-02-01 1:05 ` [v5,1/4] " Michael Ellerman
2017-01-16 19:07 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] powerpc/mm: add radix__create_section_mapping() Reza Arbab
2017-01-17 6:48 ` Balbir Singh
2017-01-16 19:07 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] powerpc/mm: add radix__remove_section_mapping() Reza Arbab
2017-01-17 7:22 ` Balbir Singh
2017-01-17 18:36 ` Reza Arbab
2017-01-18 1:22 ` Balbir Singh
2017-01-16 19:07 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] powerpc/mm: unstub radix__vmemmap_remove_mapping() Reza Arbab
2017-01-17 7:25 ` Balbir Singh
2017-01-17 18:36 ` Reza Arbab [this message]
2017-01-18 1:53 ` Balbir Singh
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