linux-kernel - Re: [patch] hugetlb: remove dummy definitions of HPAGE_MASK and HPAGE

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Date:	Thu, 17 Nov 2011 15:44:50 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>, linux-mips@...ux-mips.org,
	ralf@...ux-mips.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Robin Holt <holt@....com>
Subject: Re: [patch] hugetlb: remove dummy definitions of HPAGE_MASK and
 HPAGE_SIZE

On Thu, 17 Nov 2011, Andrew Morton wrote:

> > So, just remove the dummy and dangerous definitions since they are no
> > longer needed and reveals the correct dependencies.  Tested on
> > architectures using the definitions with allyesconfig: x86 (even with
> > thp), hppa, mips, powerpc, s390, sh3, sh4, sparc, and sparc64, and
> > with defconfig on ia64.
> 
> How could arch/mips/mm/tlb-r4k.c:local_flush_tlb_range() compile OK
> with this change?
> 

This was tested on Linus' tree, not on Ralf's linux-next tree.  All uses 
of HPAGE_* are protected by CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE as it appropriately should 
be in Linus' tree in that file.

> What that function is doing looks reasonable to me.  Why fill the poor
> thing with an ifdef mess?
> 
> otoh, catching mistakes is good too.  Doing it at runtime as David
> proposes is OK.
> 

Nobody else needs it other than Ralf's pending change, and you're 
suggesting we need them in a generic header file when any sane arch that 
uses hugepages (all of them, in the current tree) declares these 
themselves in arch/*/include/asm/page.h where it's supposed to be done?

Why on earth do we have CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE for at all, then?  To catch 
code that's operating on hugepages when our kernel doesn't support it.  
I'd much rather break the build than get a runtime BUG() because we want 
to avoid an #ifdef or actually write well-written code like every other 
arch has!  Panicking the code to find errors like this is just insanity.
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