Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] mm: percpu: Cleanup percpu first chunk funciton

[Kefeng Wang]

On 2021/11/30 6:55, Dennis Zhou wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 05:35:53PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
> > When support page mapping percpu first chunk allocator on arm64, we
> > found there are lots of duplicated codes in percpu embed/page first
> > chunk allocator. This patchset is aimed to cleanup them and should
> > no funciton change, only test on arm64.
> >
> > Kefeng Wang (4):
> >    mm: percpu: Generalize percpu related config
> >    mm: percpu: Add pcpu_fc_cpu_to_node_fn_t typedef
> >    mm: percpu: Add generic pcpu_fc_alloc/free funciton
> >    mm: percpu: Add generic pcpu_populate_pte() function
> >
> >   arch/arm64/Kconfig             |  20 +----
> >   arch/ia64/Kconfig              |   9 +--
> >   arch/mips/Kconfig              |  10 +--
> >   arch/mips/mm/init.c            |  14 +---
> >   arch/powerpc/Kconfig           |  17 +---
> >   arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c |  92 +--------------------
> >   arch/riscv/Kconfig             |  10 +--
> >   arch/sparc/Kconfig             |  12 +--
> >   arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c     | 105 +-----------------------
> >   arch/x86/Kconfig               |  17 +---
> >   arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c |  66 ++-------------
> >   drivers/base/arch_numa.c       |  68 +---------------
> >   include/linux/percpu.h         |  13 +--
> >   mm/Kconfig                     |  12 +++
> >   mm/percpu.c                    | 143 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
> >   15 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 443 deletions(-)
> >
> > --
> > 2.26.2
> I've made a few comments. I think this will be a little bit of a
> challenge to get through due to it touching so many architectures. For
> ease, it probably makes sense to run it through mny tree, but we'll need
> explicit acks as I mentioned.
>
> I like getting rid of the pcpu_alloc_bootmem()/pcpu_free_bootmem()
> functions. However, let's keep the implementation identical to x86.
ok , will change patch3 in v2
> I don't think we should get rid of the populate_pte_fn(). I'm not
> comfortable changing x86's implementation. Simply offer a NULL, and if
> NULL use the default.

As replied in patch4, we use __weak method, and x86's implementation is

not changed in patch4, is this ok?

> Do you have a tree that intel pulls? I suggest cleaning up the patches
> and pushing to a remote branch that they pick up. That would have caught
> the mips typo. Send a PR creating a file in [1] for your branch, github
> is fine. Basic validation needs to be done before I can pick this up
> too on more than arm64.

Ok, x86/arm64/riscv are tested, but I don't has ppc/mips/sparc compliler.

I will try to push new version into github and test by lkp.

Thanks.

> [1] https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests/tree/master/repo/linux
>
> Thanks,
> Dennis
> .