Re: [PATCH v2 09/12] mm,thp: reduce ifdef'ery for THP in generic code

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On Friday 09 October 2015 03:23 PM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 04:04:53PM +0530, Vineet Gupta wrote:
>> > - pgtable-generic.c: Fold individual #ifdef for each helper into a top
>> >   level #ifdef. Makes code more readable
> Makes sense.
> 
>> > - Per Andrew's suggestion removed the dummy implementations for !THP
>> >   in asm-generic/page-table.h to have build time failures vs. runtime.
> I'm not sure it's a good idea. This can lead to unnecessary #ifdefs where
> otherwise call to helper would be eliminated by compiler as dead code.
> 
> What about dummy helpers with BUILD_BUG()?
> 

You are right after all. It is not so much related to __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_xyz, but
the fact that generic code can call them under PageTransHuge(). So better to
provide stubs with BUILD_BUG

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