linux-kernel - [PATCHv2, RESEND 01/19] alpha: expose number of page table levels on Kconfig level

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Message-Id: <1423234264-197684-2-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Fri,  6 Feb 2015 16:50:46 +0200
From:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	linux-mm@...ck.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
	Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
	Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
	Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>
Subject: [PATCHv2, RESEND 01/19] alpha: expose number of page table levels on Kconfig level

We would want to use number of page table level to define mm_struct.
Let's expose it as CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>
Tested-by: Guenter Roeck <linux@...ck-us.net>
---

I've implemented accounting for pmd page tables as we have for pte (see
mm->nr_ptes). It's requires a new counter in mm_struct: mm->nr_pmds.

But the feature doesn't make any sense if an architecture has PMD level
folded and it would be nice get rid of the counter in this case.

The problem is that we cannot use __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED in
<linux/mm_types.h> due to circular dependencies:

<linux/mm_types> -> <asm/pgtable.h> -> <linux/mm_types.h>

In most cases <asm/pgtable.h> wants <linux/mm_types.h> to get definition
of struct page and struct vm_area_struct. I've tried to split mm_struct
into separate header file to be able to user <asm/pgtable.h> there.

But it doesn't fly on some architectures, like ARM: it wants mm_struct
<asm/pgtable.h> to implement tlb flushing. I don't see how to fix it without
massive de-inlining or coverting a lot for inline functions to macros.

This is other approach: expose number of page tables in use via Kconfig
and use it in <linux/mm_types.h> instead of __PAGETABLE_PMD_FOLDED from
<asm/pgtable.h>.

---
 arch/alpha/Kconfig | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
index b7ff9a318c31..bf9e9d3b3792 100644
--- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig
@@ -76,6 +76,10 @@ config GENERIC_ISA_DMA
 	bool
 	default y

+config PGTABLE_LEVELS
+	int
+	default 3
+
 source "init/Kconfig"
 source "kernel/Kconfig.freezer"

-- 
2.1.4

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