Re: [PATCH v4 05/13] mm/arch: Provide pud_pfn() fallback

From: Christophe Leroy
Date: Wed Apr 03 2024 - 08:26:54 EST




Le 03/04/2024 à 14:08, Jason Gunthorpe a écrit :
> On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 07:35:45PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 07:53:20PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
>>> On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 06:43:56PM -0400, Peter Xu wrote:
>>>
>>>> I actually tested this without hitting the issue (even though I didn't
>>>> mention it in the cover letter..). I re-kicked the build test, it turns
>>>> out my "make alldefconfig" on loongarch will generate a config with both
>>>> HUGETLB=n && THP=n, while arch/loongarch/configs/loongson3_defconfig has
>>>> THP=y (which I assume was the one above build used). I didn't further
>>>> check how "make alldefconfig" generated the config; a bit surprising that
>>>> it didn't fetch from there.
>>>
>>> I suspect it is weird compiler variations.. Maybe something is not
>>> being inlined.
>>>
>>>> (and it also surprises me that this BUILD_BUG can trigger.. I used to try
>>>> triggering it elsewhere but failed..)
>>>
>>> As the pud_leaf() == FALSE should result in the BUILD_BUG never being
>>> called and the optimizer removing it.
>>
>> Good point, for some reason loongarch defined pud_leaf() without defining
>> pud_pfn(), which does look strange.
>>
>> #define pud_leaf(pud) ((pud_val(pud) & _PAGE_HUGE) != 0)
>>
>> But I noticed at least MIPS also does it.. Logically I think one arch
>> should define either none of both.
>
> Wow, this is definately an arch issue. You can't define pud_leaf() and
> not have a pud_pfn(). It makes no sense at all..
>
> I'd say the BUILD_BUG has done it's job and found an issue, fix it by
> not defining pud_leaf? I don't see any calls to pud_leaf in loongarch
> at least

As far as I can see it was added by commit 303be4b33562 ("LoongArch: mm:
Add p?d_leaf() definitions").

Not sure it was added for a good reason, and I'm not sure what was added
is correct because arch/loongarch/include/asm/pgtable-bits.h has:

#define _PAGE_HUGE_SHIFT 6 /* HUGE is a PMD bit */

So I'm not sure it is correct to use that bit for PUD, is it ?

Probably pud_leaf() should always return false.

Christophe