Excerpts from Andrew Morton's message of August 22, 2020 6:14 am: > On Sat, 22 Aug 2020 01:12:09 +1000 Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> This changes the awkward approach where architectures provide init >> functions to determine which levels they can provide large mappings for, >> to one where the arch is queried for each call. >> >> This removes code and indirection, and allows constant-folding of dead >> code for unsupported levels. >> >> This also adds a prot argument to the arch query. This is unused >> currently but could help with some architectures (e.g., some powerpc >> processors can't map uncacheable memory with large pages). >> >> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/vmalloc.h >> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/vmalloc.h >> @@ -1,4 +1,12 @@ >> #ifndef _ASM_ARM64_VMALLOC_H >> #define _ASM_ARM64_VMALLOC_H >> >> +#include <asm/page.h> >> + >> +#ifdef CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_HUGE_VMAP >> +bool arch_vmap_p4d_supported(pgprot_t prot); >> +bool arch_vmap_pud_supported(pgprot_t prot); >> +bool arch_vmap_pmd_supported(pgprot_t prot); >> +#endif > > Moving these out of generic code and into multiple arch headers is > unfortunate. Can we leave them in include/linux/somewhere? And remove > the ifdefs, if so inclined - they just move the build error from > link-time to compile-time, and such an error shouldn't occur! Yeah this was just an intermediate step as you saw. It's a bit unfortunate, but I thought it made the arch changes clearer. Thanks, Nick
