linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 06/12] powerpc: inline huge vmap supported functions

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Message-Id: <1611574452.y64320stks.astroid@bobo.none>
Date:   Mon, 25 Jan 2021 21:37:08 +1000
From:   Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        linux-mm@...ck.org
Cc:     Ding Tianhong <dingtianhong@...wei.com>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>,
        Jonathan Cameron <Jonathan.Cameron@...wei.com>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Zefan Li <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Rick Edgecombe <rick.p.edgecombe@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 06/12] powerpc: inline huge vmap supported functions

Excerpts from Christophe Leroy's message of January 25, 2021 6:42 pm:
> 
> 
> Le 24/01/2021 à 09:22, Nicholas Piggin a écrit :
>> This allows unsupported levels to be constant folded away, and so
>> p4d_free_pud_page can be removed because it's no longer linked to.
> 
> Ah, ok, you did it here. Why not squashing this patch into patch 5 directly ?

To reduce arch code movement in the first patch and split up these arch
patches to get separate acks for them.

Maybe overkill for these changes but doesn't hurt I think.

Thanks,
Nick