linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] mm/sparse-vmemmap: Generalise vmemmap_populate

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Message-ID: <20220704092658.GA31220@willie-the-truck>
Date:   Mon, 4 Jul 2022 10:26:58 +0100
From:   Will Deacon <will@...nel.org>
To:     Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...ngson.cn>
Cc:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>, Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        loongarch@...ts.linux.dev, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        Xuefeng Li <lixuefeng@...ngson.cn>,
        Guo Ren <guoren@...nel.org>, Xuerui Wang <kernel@...0n.name>,
        Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
        Feiyang Chen <chenfeiyang@...ngson.cn>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3 3/4] mm/sparse-vmemmap: Generalise
 vmemmap_populate_hugepages()

On Sat, Jul 02, 2022 at 04:00:20PM +0800, Huacai Chen wrote:
> From: Feiyang Chen <chenfeiyang@...ngson.cn>
> 
> Generalise vmemmap_populate_hugepages() so ARM64 & X86 & LoongArch can
> share its implementation.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Feiyang Chen <chenfeiyang@...ngson.cn>
> Signed-off-by: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@...ngson.cn>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c      | 53 ++++++-----------------
>  arch/loongarch/mm/init.c | 63 ++++++++-------------------
>  arch/x86/mm/init_64.c    | 92 ++++++++++++++--------------------------
>  include/linux/mm.h       |  6 +++
>  mm/sparse-vmemmap.c      | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++
>  5 files changed, 124 insertions(+), 144 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> index 626ec32873c6..b080a65c719d 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
> @@ -1158,49 +1158,24 @@ int __meminit vmemmap_populate(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, int node,
>  	return vmemmap_populate_basepages(start, end, node, altmap);
>  }
>  #else	/* !ARM64_KERNEL_USES_PMD_MAPS */
> +void __meminit vmemmap_set_pmd(pmd_t *pmd, void *p, int node,
> +			       unsigned long addr, unsigned long next)
> +{
> +	pmd_set_huge(pmd, __pa(p), __pgprot(PROT_SECT_NORMAL));
> +}
> +
> +int __meminit vmemmap_check_pmd(pmd_t *pmd, int node, unsigned long addr,
> +				unsigned long next)
> +{
> +	vmemmap_verify((pte_t *)pmd, node, addr, next);
> +	return 1;
> +}

nit, but please can you use 'pmdp' instead of 'pmd' for the pointers? We're
pretty consistent elsewhere for arch/arm64 and it makes the READ_ONCE()
usage easier to follow once functions end up loading the entry.

Thanks,

Will