linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] treewide: Move set_memory

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Date:   Thu, 9 Feb 2017 10:59:56 +0100
From:   Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:     Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
Cc:     Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, x86@...nel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] treewide: Move set_memory_* functions away from
 cacheflush.h

On Tue, Feb 07, 2017 at 01:10:16PM -0800, Laura Abbott wrote:
> The set_memory_* APIs came out of a desire to have a better way to
> change memory attributes. Many of these attributes were linked to cache
> functionality so the prototypes were put in cacheflush.h. These days,
> the APIs have grown and have a much wider use than just cache APIs. To
> support this growth, split off set_memory_* and friends into a separate
> header file to avoid growing cacheflush.h for APIs that have nothing to
> do with caches.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Laura Abbott <labbott@...hat.com>
> ---
> This came out of a comment Russell made while reviewing RODATA test cases
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2017-January/480855.html
> While the final result of that series was the rodata code was refactored into
> its own header file, the set_memory_* APIs are still out of place.
> 
> This is a simple attempt at moving all the API stubs to their own file.
> Another idea I had was throwing set_memory_{x,nx,ro,rw} in an asm-generic
> file since those are commonly used for module setting across all arches.
> 
> This is an RFC to see if this is actually beneficial. The diffstat is not
> negative unfortunately due to header guards in newer files.
> I have patches to convert call sites over to set_memory.h instead of
> cacheflush.h if there is sufficient interest.
> ---
>  arch/arm/include/asm/cacheflush.h   |  21 +-------
>  arch/arm/include/asm/set_memory.h   |  32 ++++++++++++
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/cacheflush.h |   6 +--
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/set_memory.h |  26 ++++++++++
>  arch/s390/include/asm/cacheflush.h  |   6 +--
>  arch/s390/include/asm/set_memory.h  |   9 ++++
>  arch/x86/include/asm/cacheflush.h   |  96 +---------------------------------
>  arch/x86/include/asm/set_memory.h   | 100 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  8 files changed, 171 insertions(+), 125 deletions(-)
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm/include/asm/set_memory.h
>  create mode 100644 arch/arm64/include/asm/set_memory.h
>  create mode 100644 arch/s390/include/asm/set_memory.h
>  create mode 100644 arch/x86/include/asm/set_memory.h

For s390:
Acked-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>