Re: [RFC PATCH 2/7] mm/vmalloc: Track which page-table levels were modified

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

 



On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 09:10:48PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 04:40:38PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > +	if (mask & ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK)
> > +		arch_sync_kernel_mappings(start, end);
> 
> So you're relying on the compiler DCE'ing the call in the 'normal' case.
> 
> Works I suppose, but I went over the patches twice to look for a default
> implementation of it before I figured that out ...

Yes, works on all architectures I compile-tested this on, with gcc-9.3.
I should probably add a comment about that.


	Joerg



[Index of Archives]     [Linux Kernel]     [Kernel Newbies]     [x86 Platform Driver]     [Netdev]     [Linux Wireless]     [Netfilter]     [Bugtraq]     [Linux Filesystems]     [Yosemite Discussion]     [MIPS Linux]     [ARM Linux]     [Linux Security]     [Linux RAID]     [Samba]     [Device Mapper]

  Powered by Linux