Re: [PATCH v3] ARC: mm: remove __ARCH_USE_5LEVEL_HACK

From: Kirill A. Shutemov
Date: Thu Oct 10 2019 - 04:28:07 EST


On Wed, Oct 09, 2019 at 06:57:31PM +0000, Vineet Gupta wrote:
> Add the intermediate p4d accessors to make it 5 level compliant.
>
> This is a non-functional change anyways since ARC has software page walker
> with 2 lookup levels (pgd -> pte)
>
> There is slight code bloat due to pulling in needless p*d_free_tlb()
> macros which needs to be addressed seperately.
>
> | bloat-o-meter2 vmlinux-with-5LEVEL_HACK vmlinux-patched
> | add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/0 up/down: 128/0 (128)
> | function old new delta
> | free_pgd_range 546 656 +110
> | p4d_clear_bad 2 20 +18
> | Total: Before=4137148, After=4137276, chg 0.000000%
>
> Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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