Re: [PATCH v3 1/8] mm: Cleanup faultaround and finish_fault() codepaths
From: Will Deacon
Date: Wed Feb 10 2021 - 06:50:02 EST
On Tue, Feb 09, 2021 at 12:24:49PM -0800, Guenter Roeck wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 05:59:27PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> > From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > alloc_set_pte() has two users with different requirements: in the
> > faultaround code, it called from an atomic context and PTE page table
> > has to be preallocated. finish_fault() can sleep and allocate page table
> > as needed.
> >
> > PTL locking rules are also strange, hard to follow and overkill for
> > finish_fault().
> >
> > Let's untangle the mess. alloc_set_pte() has gone now. All locking is
> > explicit.
> >
> > The price is some code duplication to handle huge pages in faultaround
> > path, but it should be fine, having overall improvement in readability.
> >
> > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201229132819.najtavneutnf7ajp@box
> > Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > [will: s/from from/from/ in comment; spotted by willy]
> > Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > fs/xfs/xfs_file.c | 6 +-
> > include/linux/mm.h | 12 ++-
> > include/linux/pgtable.h | 11 +++
> > mm/filemap.c | 177 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---------
> > mm/memory.c | 199 ++++++++++++----------------------------
> > 5 files changed, 213 insertions(+), 192 deletions(-)
> >
>
> When building microblaze:mmu_defconfig:
>
> mm/filemap.c: In function 'filemap_map_pages':
> mm/filemap.c:3153:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'update_mmu_cache'; did you mean 'update_mmu_tlb'?
>
> Bisect log attached.
Looks like a missing include.
Will
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