linux-kernel - [PATCH v3 5/5] asm-generic/mm: stub out p{4,u}d_clear_bad() if __PAGETABLE_P{4,U}D

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Message-Id: <20191016162400.14796-6-vgupta@synopsys.com>
Date:   Wed, 16 Oct 2019 09:24:00 -0700
From:   Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
To:     linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     linux-snps-arc@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Nick Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        "Kirill A . Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>
Subject: [PATCH v3 5/5] asm-generic/mm: stub out p{4,u}d_clear_bad() if __PAGETABLE_P{4,U}D_FOLDED

This came up when removing __ARCH_HAS_5LEVEL_HACK for ARC as code bloat.
With this patch we see the following code reduction.

| bloat-o-meter2 vmlinux-D-elide-p4d_free_tlb vmlinux-E-elide-p?d_clear_bad
| add/remove: 0/2 grow/shrink: 0/0 up/down: 0/-40 (-40)
| function                                     old     new   delta
| pud_clear_bad                                 20       -     -20
| p4d_clear_bad                                 20       -     -20
| Total: Before=4136930, After=4136890, chg -1.000000%

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
---
 include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 11 +++++++++++
 mm/pgtable-generic.c          |  9 +++++++++
 2 files changed, 20 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 818691846c90..9cdcbc7c0b7b 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -558,8 +558,19 @@ static inline pgprot_t pgprot_modify(pgprot_t oldprot, pgprot_t newprot)
  * Do the tests inline, but report and clear the bad entry in mm/memory.c.
  */
 void pgd_clear_bad(pgd_t *);
+
+#ifndef __PAGETABLE_P4D_FOLDED
 void p4d_clear_bad(p4d_t *);
+#else
+#define p4d_clear_bad(p4d)        do { } while (0)
+#endif
+
+#ifndef __PAGETABLE_PUD_FOLDED
 void pud_clear_bad(pud_t *);
+#else
+#define pud_clear_bad(p4d)        do { } while (0)
+#endif
+
 void pmd_clear_bad(pmd_t *);
 
 static inline int pgd_none_or_clear_bad(pgd_t *pgd)
diff --git a/mm/pgtable-generic.c b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
index 532c29276fce..3d7c01e76efc 100644
--- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c
+++ b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
@@ -24,18 +24,27 @@ void pgd_clear_bad(pgd_t *pgd)
 	pgd_clear(pgd);
 }
 
+#ifndef __PAGETABLE_P4D_FOLDED
 void p4d_clear_bad(p4d_t *p4d)
 {
 	p4d_ERROR(*p4d);
 	p4d_clear(p4d);
 }
+#endif
 
+#ifndef __PAGETABLE_PUD_FOLDED
 void pud_clear_bad(pud_t *pud)
 {
 	pud_ERROR(*pud);
 	pud_clear(pud);
 }
+#endif
 
+/*
+ * Note that the pmd variant below can't be stub'ed out just as for p4d/pud
+ * above. pmd folding is special and typically pmd_* macros refer to upper
+ * level even when folded
+ */
 void pmd_clear_bad(pmd_t *pmd)
 {
 	pmd_ERROR(*pmd);
-- 
2.20.1