Re: [PATCH] mm: simplify size2index conversion of __kmalloc_index

[Vlastimil Babka]

On 8/29/22 05:36, Hyeonggon Yoo wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 04:11:04AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 28, 2022 at 11:14:48PM +0800, Dawei Li wrote:
>> > Current size2index is implemented by one to one hardcode mapping,
>> > which can be improved by order_base_2().
>> > Must be careful to not violate compile-time optimization rule.
>> 
>> This patch has been NACKed before (when submitted by other people).
> 
> 
> Hmm right.
> https://lkml.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/1606.2/05402.html
> 
> Christoph Lameter wrote:
>> On Wed, 22 Jun 2016, Yury Norov wrote:
>> > There will be no fls() for constant at runtime because ilog2() calculates
>> > constant values at compile-time as well. From this point of view,
>> > this patch removes code duplication, as we already have compile-time
>> > log() calculation in kernel, and should re-use it whenever possible.\
> 
>> The reason not to use ilog there was that the constant folding did not
>> work correctly with one or the other architectures/compilers. If you want
>> to do this then please verify that all arches reliably do produce a
>> constant there.
> 
> Can we re-evaluate this?

Is there a way to turn inability of compile-time calculation to a
compile-time error? (when size_is_constant=true etc). Then we could try and
see if anything breaks in -next.