linux-kernel - Re: Re: [PATCH] Remove initialization of page_table in one_page_table

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Date:	Mon, 20 Jul 2009 11:07:29 +0800
From:	Zhaolei <zhaolei@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
CC:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Re: [PATCH] Remove initialization of page_table in	one_page_table_init()

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Zhaolei <zhaolei@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
> 
>> Only judge if (!page_table) when CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC or CONFIG_KMEMCHECK
>> are defined, then we don't need to set init value for page_table.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Zhao Lei <zhaolei@...fujitsu.com>
>> ---
>> arch/x86/mm/init_32.c |    4 ++--
>> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
>> index 3cd7711..55da09b 100644
>> --- a/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
>> +++ b/arch/x86/mm/init_32.c
>> @@ -108,13 +108,13 @@ static pmd_t * __init one_md_table_init(pgd_t *pgd)
>> static pte_t * __init one_page_table_init(pmd_t *pmd)
>> {
>>     if (!(pmd_val(*pmd) & _PAGE_PRESENT)) {
>> -        pte_t *page_table = NULL;
>> +        pte_t *page_table;
>>
>>         if (after_bootmem) {
>> #if defined(CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC) || defined(CONFIG_KMEMCHECK)
>>             page_table = (pte_t *) alloc_bootmem_pages(PAGE_SIZE);
>> -#endif
>>             if (!page_table)
>> +#endif
>>                 page_table =
>>                 (pte_t *)alloc_bootmem_low_pages(PAGE_SIZE);
> 
> I think the original code was cleaner - putting an #ifdef straight 
> into the middle of a control block is quite fragile.
> 
> 	Ingo
> 

Hello, Ingo

David Rientjes said that:
Nack, gcc will already optimize the branch out for configs without 
CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC and CONFIG_KMEMCHECK.  The only thing this change 
does is make the code less readable.

I tested it with gcc -O2, and proved that David is correct.
Initialization of page_table and additional "if (!page_table)" was removed by optimization.
Please ignore this patch.

Thanks
Zhaolei

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