linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] microblaze: switch to generic version of pte allocation

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Message-Id: <20190813125208.GB19524@rapoport-lnx>
Date:   Tue, 13 Aug 2019 15:52:08 +0300
From:   Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] microblaze: switch to generic version of pte allocation

On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 11:20:50AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 01:09:12PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > The microblaze implementation of pte_alloc_one() has a provision to
> > allocated PTEs from high memory, but neither CONFIG_HIGHPTE nor pte_map*()
> > versions for suitable for HIGHPTE are defined.
> > 
> > Except that, microblaze version of pte_alloc_one() is identical to the
> > generic one as well as the implementations of pte_free() and
> > pte_free_kernel().
> > 
> > Switch microblaze to use the generic versions of these functions.
> > Also remove pte_free_slow() that is not referenced anywhere in the code.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>
> > ---
> > The patch is vs. mmots/master since this tree contains bothi "mm: remove
> > quicklist page table caches" and "mm: treewide: clarify
> > pgtable_page_{ctor,dtor}() naming" patches that had a conflict resulting in
> > a build failure [1].
> > 
> > [1] https://lore.kernel.org/linux-mm/201908131204.B910fkl1%25lkp@intel.com/
> 
> This looks sane to me, so FWIW:
> 
> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>

Thanks!
 
> I guess Andrew will pick this up and fix up the conflict?

I hope so :)

> Thanks,
> Mark.
> 
> > 
> >  arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 39 +++--------------------------------
> >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)
> > 
> > diff --git a/arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgalloc.h b/arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgalloc.h
> > index dbf25a3..7ecb05b 100644
> > --- a/arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgalloc.h
> > +++ b/arch/microblaze/include/asm/pgalloc.h
> > @@ -21,6 +21,9 @@
> >  #include <asm/cache.h>
> >  #include <asm/pgtable.h>
> >  
> > +#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_ALLOC_ONE_KERNEL
> > +#include <asm-generic/pgalloc.h>
> > +
> >  extern void __bad_pte(pmd_t *pmd);
> >  
> >  static inline pgd_t *get_pgd(void)
> > @@ -47,42 +50,6 @@ static inline void free_pgd(pgd_t *pgd)
> >  
> >  extern pte_t *pte_alloc_one_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm);
> >  
> > -static inline struct page *pte_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm)
> > -{
> > -	struct page *ptepage;
> > -
> > -#ifdef CONFIG_HIGHPTE
> > -	int flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO | __GFP_HIGHMEM;
> > -#else
> > -	int flags = GFP_KERNEL | __GFP_ZERO;
> > -#endif
> > -
> > -	ptepage = alloc_pages(flags, 0);
> > -	if (!ptepage)
> > -		return NULL;
> > -	if (!pgtable_page_ctor(ptepage)) {
> > -		__free_page(ptepage);
> > -		return NULL;
> > -	}
> > -	return ptepage;
> > -}
> > -
> > -static inline void pte_free_kernel(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *pte)
> > -{
> > -	free_page((unsigned long)pte);
> > -}
> > -
> > -static inline void pte_free_slow(struct page *ptepage)
> > -{
> > -	__free_page(ptepage);
> > -}
> > -
> > -static inline void pte_free(struct mm_struct *mm, struct page *ptepage)
> > -{
> > -	pgtable_pte_page_dtor(ptepage);
> > -	__free_page(ptepage);
> > -}
> > -
> >  #define __pte_free_tlb(tlb, pte, addr)	pte_free((tlb)->mm, (pte))
> >  
> >  #define pmd_populate(mm, pmd, pte) \
> > -- 
> > 2.7.4
> > 

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.