linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v12 5/5] arm64, mm, numa: Add NUMA balancing support for arm64.

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Message-ID: <20160226185356.GO29125@arm.com>
Date:	Fri, 26 Feb 2016 18:53:57 +0000
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	David Daney <ddaney.cavm@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
	Pawel Moll <pawel.moll@....com>,
	Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
	Ian Campbell <ijc+devicetree@...lion.org.uk>,
	Kumar Gala <galak@...eaurora.org>, devicetree@...r.kernel.org,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
	Frank Rowand <frowand.list@...il.com>,
	Grant Likely <grant.likely@...aro.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Matt Fleming <matt@...eblueprint.co.uk>,
	linux-efi@...r.kernel.org,
	Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@...iumnetworks.com>,
	Robert Richter <rrichter@...ium.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v12 5/5] arm64, mm, numa: Add NUMA balancing support for
 arm64.

On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 05:58:23PM -0800, David Daney wrote:
> From: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@...iumnetworks.com>
> 
> Enable NUMA balancing for arm64 platforms.
> Add pte, pmd protnone helpers for use by automatic NUMA balancing.
> 
> Reviewed-by: Robert Richter <rrichter@...ium.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ganapatrao Kulkarni <gkulkarni@...iumnetworks.com>
> Signed-off-by: David Daney <david.daney@...ium.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/Kconfig               |  1 +
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
>  2 files changed, 16 insertions(+)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/Kconfig b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> index 9f0972a..6e22503 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/arm64/Kconfig
> @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ config ARM64
>  	select ARCH_HAS_TICK_BROADCAST if GENERIC_CLOCKEVENTS_BROADCAST
>  	select ARCH_USE_CMPXCHG_LOCKREF
>  	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_ATOMIC_RMW
> +	select ARCH_SUPPORTS_NUMA_BALANCING
>  	select ARCH_WANT_OPTIONAL_GPIOLIB
>  	select ARCH_WANT_COMPAT_IPC_PARSE_VERSION
>  	select ARCH_WANT_FRAME_POINTERS
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index bf464de..5af9db2 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -346,6 +346,21 @@ static inline pgprot_t mk_sect_prot(pgprot_t prot)
>  	return __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) & ~PTE_TABLE_BIT);
>  }
>  
> +#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
> +/*
> + * See the comment in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
> + */
> +static inline int pte_protnone(pte_t pte)
> +{
> +	return (pte_val(pte) & (PTE_VALID | PTE_PROT_NONE)) == PTE_PROT_NONE;
> +}
> +
> +static inline int pmd_protnone(pmd_t pmd)
> +{
> +	return pte_protnone(pmd_pte(pmd));
> +}
> +#endif

Can these not be macros, like our other pte_* and pmd_* predicates in
this header file?

Will