On 9/20/24 11:19, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 9/19/24 22:30, Anshuman Khandual wrote: >> set_pxd_safe() helpers that serve a specific purpose for both x86 and riscv >> platforms, do not need to be in the common memory code. Otherwise they just >> unnecessarily make the common API more complicated. This moves the helpers >> from common code to platform instead. > > I just did a quick grep and don't see any difference between the _safe > and normal variants. A quick grep didn't turn up any actual users. > > Did anyone actually double check that these are still needed on x86 in > the first place? arch/x86/mm/init_64.c #define DEFINE_ENTRY(type1, type2, init) \ static inline void set_##type1##_init(type1##_t *arg1, \ type2##_t arg2, bool init) \ { \ if (init) \ set_##type1##_safe(arg1, arg2); \ else \ set_##type1(arg1, arg2); \ } DEFINE_ENTRY(p4d, p4d, init) DEFINE_ENTRY(pud, pud, init) DEFINE_ENTRY(pmd, pmd, init) DEFINE_ENTRY(pte, pte, init) We had triggered a build problem after dropping off set_pte_safe() which seemed not to be used after normal grep. https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/202409131220.CJ5MlGCG-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/