Re: [PATCH v3 1/5] arch/x86: Drop own definition of pgd,p4d_leaf

From: Baoquan He
Date: Mon Mar 17 2025 - 19:57:45 EST


On 07/13/24 at 09:08am, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> From: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
>
> We provide generic definitions of pXd_leaf in pgtable.h when the arch
> do not define their own, where the generic pXd_leaf always return false.
>
> Although x86 defines {pgd,p4d}_leaf, they end up being a no-op, so drop them
> and make them fallback to the generic one.
>
> Signed-off-by: Oscar Salvador <osalvador@xxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Reviewed-by: Peter Xu <peterx@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 10 ----------
> 1 file changed, 10 deletions(-)

Seems this series is missed. It does do a great clean up.

>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index 65b8e5bb902c..772f778bac06 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -252,13 +252,6 @@ static inline unsigned long pgd_pfn(pgd_t pgd)
> return (pgd_val(pgd) & PTE_PFN_MASK) >> PAGE_SHIFT;
> }
>
> -#define p4d_leaf p4d_leaf
> -static inline bool p4d_leaf(p4d_t p4d)
> -{
> - /* No 512 GiB pages yet */
> - return 0;
> -}
> -
> #define pte_page(pte) pfn_to_page(pte_pfn(pte))
>
> #define pmd_leaf pmd_leaf
> @@ -1396,9 +1389,6 @@ static inline bool pgdp_maps_userspace(void *__ptr)
> return (((ptr & ~PAGE_MASK) / sizeof(pgd_t)) < PGD_KERNEL_START);
> }
>
> -#define pgd_leaf pgd_leaf
> -static inline bool pgd_leaf(pgd_t pgd) { return false; }
> -
> #ifdef CONFIG_MITIGATION_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION
> /*
> * All top-level MITIGATION_PAGE_TABLE_ISOLATION page tables are order-1 pages
> --
> 2.44.0
>
>