linux-kernel - [PATCH 05/10] mm: mincore: clean up hugetlbfs handling (part 1)

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Date:	Mon, 02 Jun 2014 14:36:51 -0700
From:	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com,
	Dave Hansen <dave@...1.net>
Subject: [PATCH 05/10] mm: mincore: clean up hugetlbfs handling (part 1)


From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>

The page walker functions are only called _via_ the page
walker.  I don't see this changing any time soon.  The
page walker only calls walk->hugetlb_entry() under an
#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE.

With this in place, I think putting BUG()s in the
->hugetlb_entry handlers is a bit like wearing a belt and
suspenders.

This axes the BUG() from the mincore ->hugetlb_entry along
with the #ifdef.  The compiler is more than smart enough
to do the right thing when it sees:

	if (1)
		return;
	// unreachable

The only downside here is that we now need some header stubs
for huge_pte_none() / huge_pte_get().

Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
---

 b/include/linux/hugetlb.h |   10 ++++++++++
 b/mm/mincore.c            |    9 +++++----
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff -puN include/linux/hugetlb.h~cleanup-hugetlbfs-mincore-1 include/linux/hugetlb.h
--- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h~cleanup-hugetlbfs-mincore-1	2014-06-02 14:20:20.144845525 -0700
+++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h	2014-06-02 14:20:20.149845750 -0700
@@ -458,6 +458,16 @@ static inline spinlock_t *huge_pte_lockp
 {
 	return &mm->page_table_lock;
 }
+static inline int huge_pte_none(pte_t pte)
+{
+	WARN_ONCE(1, "%s() called when hugetlbfs disabled", __func__);
+	return 1;
+}
+static inline pte_t huge_ptep_get(pte_t *pte)
+{
+	WARN_ONCE(1, "%s() called when hugetlbfs disabled", __func__);
+	return __pte(0);
+}
 #endif	/* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */
 
 static inline spinlock_t *huge_pte_lock(struct hstate *h,
diff -puN mm/mincore.c~cleanup-hugetlbfs-mincore-1 mm/mincore.c
--- a/mm/mincore.c~cleanup-hugetlbfs-mincore-1	2014-06-02 14:20:20.146845615 -0700
+++ b/mm/mincore.c	2014-06-02 14:20:20.149845750 -0700
@@ -23,8 +23,12 @@ static int mincore_hugetlb_page_range(pt
 					unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
 					struct mm_walk *walk)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE
 	unsigned char *vec = walk->private;
+
+	/* This is as good as an explicit ifdef */
+	if (!is_vm_hugetlb_page(walk->vma))
+		return 0;
+
 	while (1) {
 		int present = !huge_pte_none(huge_ptep_get(ptep));
 		while (1) {
@@ -38,9 +42,6 @@ static int mincore_hugetlb_page_range(pt
 				break;
 		}
 	}
-#else
-	BUG();
-#endif
 	return 0;
 }
 
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