linux-kernel - Re: [PATCHv2 03/29] asm-generic: introduce __ARCH_USE_5LEVEL

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Date:   Fri, 27 Jan 2017 16:55:06 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>
Cc:     "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, x86@...nel.org,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...ux.intel.com>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...el.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...capital.net>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCHv2 03/29] asm-generic: introduce __ARCH_USE_5LEVEL_HACK

On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 02:24:58PM +0100, Vlastimil Babka wrote:
> On 12/27/2016 02:53 AM, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> >We are going to introduce <asm-generic/pgtable-nop4d.h> to provide
> >abstraction for properly (in opposite to 5level-fixup.h hack) folded
> >p4d level. The new header will be included from pgtable-nopud.h.
> >
> >If an architecture uses <asm-generic/nop*d.h>, we cannot use
> >5level-fixup.h directly to quickly convert the architecture to 5-level
> >paging as it would conflict with pgtable-nop4d.h.
> >
> >With this patch an architecture can define __ARCH_USE_5LEVEL_HACK before
> >inclusion <asm-genenric/nop*d.h> to 5level-fixup.h.
> >
> >Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
> >---
> > include/asm-generic/pgtable-nop4d-hack.h | 62 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> 
> At risk of bikeshedding and coming from somebody not familiar with this
> code... IMHO it would be somewhat more intuitive and consistent to name the
> file "pgtable-nopud-hack.h" as it's about the pud stuff, not p4d stuff, and
> acts as an alternative implementation to pgtable-nopud.h, not
> pgtable-nop4d.h

Well, on other hand we hack-in p4d level here...

I don't really care. Either way works for me.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov