linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: Provide a default HPAGE_SHIFT if !CONFIG_HUGETLB

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Date:	Wed, 16 Nov 2011 15:18:16 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>
cc:	"ralf@...ux-mips.org" <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
	"linux-mips@...ux-mips.org" <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
	William Irwin <wli@...omorphy.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] hugetlb: Provide a default HPAGE_SHIFT if
 !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE

On Wed, 16 Nov 2011, David Daney wrote:

> > > This is required now to get MIPS kernels to compile with
> > > !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE.
> > > 
> > 
> > Why?
> 
> I should have been more specific.  The failure is in Ralf's
> mips-for-linux-next branch.
> 

I can't find that branch (it's not in Ralf's tree at git.kernel.org), so 
I'm looking at next-20111116.  It doesn't compile for mips for other 
reasons related to arch/mips/sgi-ip22/ip22-gio.c.

> > This is definitely the wrong fix, anyway, and it would require a change to
> > arch/mips/include/asm/page.h instead since it's localized to mips,
> 
> No, all we are doing is supplying a dummy definition for HPAGE_SHIFT as we
> currently have for HPAGE_SIZE and HPAGE_MASK.
> 

Which is wrong.  MIPS code should not be using HPAGE_SHIFT without 
CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE and in fact defines it itself for such a configuration 
in arch/mips/include/asm/page.h.  The only generic uses are in 
page_alloc.c where we need CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE, which isn't 
available on mips, and in mm/hugetlb.c which requires CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE 
by way of CONFIG_HUGETLBFS.

So feel free to show the actual compile error this time and I'll suggest a 
mips fix for it.

> > so nack.
> > 
> > > Signed-off-by: David Daney<david.daney@...ium.com>
> > > ---
> > >   include/linux/hugetlb.h |    1 +
> > >   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> > > index 19644e0..746d543 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
> > > @@ -113,6 +113,7 @@ static inline void copy_huge_page(struct page *dst,
> > > struct page *src)
> > >   #ifndef HPAGE_MASK
> > >   #define HPAGE_MASK	PAGE_MASK		/* Keep the compiler
> > > happy */
> > >   #define HPAGE_SIZE	PAGE_SIZE
> 
> Why didn't you NACK the addition of these two lines too?
> 
> Following your logic, we should remove these and patch up all the architecture
> specific files instead.
> 

I think it's a worthwhile goal to remove these as well, yes.
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