Re: [PATCH V2] mm: Introduce GFP_PGTABLE

[Anshuman Khandual]

On 01/16/2019 12:40 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
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> Le 16/01/2019 Ã 07:21, Anshuman Khandual a ÃcritÂ:
>> All architectures have been defining their own PGALLOC_GFP as (GFP_KERNEL |
>> __GFP_ZERO) and using it for allocating page table pages. This causes some
>> code duplication which can be easily avoided. GFP_KERNEL allocated and
>> cleared out pages (__GFP_ZERO) are required for page tables on any given
>> architecture. This creates a new generic GFP flag flag which can be used
>> for any page table page allocation. Does not cause any functional change.
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>> GFP_PGTABLE is being added into include/asm-generic/pgtable.h which is the
>> generic page tabe header just to prevent it's potential misuse as a general
>> allocation flag if included in include/linux/gfp.h.
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>> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>
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>> Build tested on arm, arm64, powerpc, powerpc64le and x86.
>> Boot tested on arm64 and x86.
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>> Changes in V2:
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>> - Moved GFP_PGTABLE into include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
>> - On X86 added __GFP_ACCOUNT into GFP_PGTABLE at various places
>> - Replaced possible flags on riscv and nds32 with GFP_PGTABLE
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> Could also replace the flags in arch/powerpc/include/asm/nohash/64/pgalloc.h with GFP_PGTABLE in pte_alloc_one_kernel() and pte_alloc_one()

Sure will do.