Re: [PATCH 03/13] mm: Add generic p?d_large() macros

From: Steven Price
Date: Wed Feb 20 2019 - 08:57:05 EST


On 19/02/2019 03:44, Liang, Kan wrote:
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> On 2/18/2019 9:19 AM, Steven Price wrote:
>> On 18/02/2019 11:31, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
>>> On Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 05:02:24PM +0000, Steven Price wrote:
>>>> From: James Morse <james.morse@xxxxxxx>
>>>>
>>>> Exposing the pud/pgd levels of the page tables to walk_page_range()
>>>> means
>>>> we may come across the exotic large mappings that come with large areas
>>>> of contiguous memory (such as the kernel's linear map).
>>>>
>>>> For architectures that don't provide p?d_large() macros, provided a
>>>> does nothing default.
>>>
>>> Kan was going to fix that for all archs I think..
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> Yes, I'm still working on a generic function to retrieve page size.
> The generic p?d_large() issue has been fixed. However, I found that the
> pgd_page() is not generic either. I'm still working on it.
> I will update you on the other thread when all issues are fixed.
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>> The latest series I can find from Kan is still x86 specific. I'm happy
>> to rebase onto something else if Kan has an implementation already
>> (please point me in the right direction). Otherwise Kan is obviously
>> free to base on these changes.
>>
>
> My implementation is similar as yours. I'm happy to re-base on your
> changes.
>
> Could you please also add a generic p4d_large()?

Sure, I'll include that in the next posting.

Thanks,

Steve