linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 05/20] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove pmd_is

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Date:   Thu, 9 May 2019 16:03:43 +0100
From:   Steven Price <steven.price@....com>
To:     Paul Mackerras <paulus@...abs.org>
Cc:     Mark Rutland <Mark.Rutland@....com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "Liang, Kan" <kan.liang@...ux.intel.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, x86@...nel.org,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, kvm-ppc@...r.kernel.org,
        Jérôme Glisse <jglisse@...hat.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@...aro.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, James Morse <james.morse@....com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 05/20] KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Remove pmd_is_leaf()

On 29/04/2019 03:05, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 03, 2019 at 03:16:12PM +0100, Steven Price wrote:
>> Since pmd_large() is now always available, pmd_is_leaf() is redundant.
>> Replace all uses with calls to pmd_large().
> 
> NAK.  I don't want to do this, because pmd_is_leaf() is purely about
> the guest page tables (the "partition-scoped" radix tree which
> specifies the guest physical to host physical translation), not about
> anything to do with the Linux process page tables.  The guest page
> tables have the same format as the Linux process page tables, but they
> are managed separately.

Fair enough, I'll drop this patch in the next posting.

> If it makes things clearer, I could rename it to "guest_pmd_is_leaf()"
> or something similar.

I'll leave that decision up to you - it might prevent similar confusion
in the future.

Steve