Hi Kirill,
On 10/10/19 1:56 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 10:26:55PM +0000, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>>
>> This series elides extraneous generate code for folded p4d/pud.
>> This came up when trying to remove __ARCH_USE_5LEVEL_HACK from ARC port.
>> The code saving are not a while lot, but still worthwhile IMHO.
>
> Agreed.
Thx.
So given we are folding pmd too, it seemed we could do the following as well.
+#ifndef __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED
void pmd_clear_bad(pmd_t *);
+#else
+#define pmd_clear_bad(pmd) do { } while (0)
+#endif
+#ifndef __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED
void pmd_clear_bad(pmd_t *pmd)
{
pmd_ERROR(*pmd);
pmd_clear(pmd);
}
+#endif
I stared at generated code and it seems a bit wrong.
free_pgd_range() -> pgd_none_or_clear_bad() is no longer checking for unmapped pgd
entries as pgd_none/pgd_bad are all stubs returning 0.
This whole pmd folding is a bit confusing considering I only revisit it every few
years :-) Abstraction wise, __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED only has pgd, pte but even in
this regime bunch of pmd macros are still valid
pmd_set(pmdp, ptep) {
*pmdp.pud.p4d.pgd = (unsigned long)ptep
}
Is there a better way to make a mental model of this code folding.
In an ideal world pmd folded would have meant pmd_* routines just vanish - poof.
So in that sense I like your implementation under #[45]LEVEL_HACK where the level
simply vanishes by code like #define p4d_t pgd_t. Perhaps there is lot of historic
baggage, proliferated into arch code so hard to untangle.
Thx,
-Vineet
