On 06/25/2012 12:19 PM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 12:10:57PM -0500, Seth Jennings wrote: >> On 06/25/2012 11:59 AM, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: >>> On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:14:37AM -0500, Seth Jennings wrote: >>>> This patch adds generic pages mapping methods that >>>> work on all archs in the absence of support for >>>> local_tlb_flush_kernel_range() advertised by the >>>> arch through __HAVE_LOCAL_TLB_FLUSH_KERNEL_RANGE >>> >>> Is this #define something that other arches define now? Or is this >>> something new that you are adding here? >> >> Something new I'm adding. > > Ah, ok. > >> The precedent for this approach is the __HAVE_ARCH_* defines >> that let the arch independent stuff know if a generic >> function needs to be defined or if there is an arch specific >> function. >> >> You can "grep -R __HAVE_ARCH_* arch/x86/" to see the ones >> that already exist. >> >> I guess I should have called it >> __HAVE_ARCH_LOCAL_TLB_FLUSH_KERNEL_RANGE though, not >> __HAVE_LOCAL_TLB_FLUSH_KERNEL_RANGE. > > You need to get the mm developers to agree with this before I can take > it. > > But, why even depend on this? Can't you either live without it The whole point of the patch is _not_ to depend on it. It just performs worse without it. We could just rip out all the the page table assisted page mapping, but, for the arches that have support for it, we'd be degrading performance in exchange for portability. Why choose when we can have both? > , or just implement it for all arches somehow? It can be implemented for some arches and already is for some (MIPS, ARM, at least). But for some arches, I imagine this can't be implemented due to hardware limitations. A benefit of this approach is the arches opt-in to the optimized zsmalloc by implementing local_tlb_flush_kernel_range() without having to change anything in zsmalloc. -- Seth -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>