Re: [PATCH v3 00/11] Make PageWriteback use the PageLocked optimisation

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On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 09:28:14AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 17, 2020 at 12:01 AM Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > v3:
> >  - Added implementations of clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte()
> >    to architectures which need it
> 
> I have two questions here?
>   1. Why not implement arch_clear_bit_unlock_is_negative_byte()
>      instead, so the kasan check in asm-generic is used everywhere?

That would be a larger change.  As I understand it (and I may misunderstand
it), I would need to rename all the clear_bit(), __clear_bit(), change_bit(),
... functions to have an 'arch_' prefix and then include instrumented-lock.h

>   2. Why not add the default implementation to
>      include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-lock.h, in case an arch_*()
>      variant is not provided yet?
> 
> Note that you did 1 for s390.

Well, s390 already uses instrumented-lock.h so I followed along with
what they're doing.  I don't think instrumented-lock.h is used at all on
these other architectures, but the whole bitops header files are such a
mess that I could easily have built a completely wrong mental model of
what's going on.



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