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From: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/8] asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic pmd_alloc_one() and pmd_free_one()
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2020 18:59:20 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200629155920.GD1492837@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200627190304.GG25039@casper.infradead.org>

On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 08:03:04PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 27, 2020 at 05:34:49PM +0300, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> > More elaborate versions on arm64 and x86 account memory for the user page
> > tables and call to pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() as the part of PMD page
> > initialization.
> > 
> > Move the arm64 version to include/asm-generic/pgalloc.h and use the generic
> > version on several architectures.
> > 
> > The pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() is a NOP when ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK is
> > not enabled, so there is no functional change for most architectures except
> > of the addition of __GFP_ACCOUNT for allocation of user page tables.
> 
> Thanks for including this line; it reminded me that we're not setting
> the PageTable flag on the page, nor accounting it to the zone page stats.
> Hope you don't mind me tagging a patch to do that on as 9/8.

We also never set PageTable flag for early page tables and for the page
tables allocated directly with get_free_page(), e.g PTI, KASAN.

> We could also do with a pud_page_[cd]tor and maybe even p4d/pgd versions.
> But that brings me to the next question -- could/should some of this
> be moved over to asm-generic/pgalloc.h?  The ctor/dtor aren't called
> from anywhere else, and there's value to reducing the total amount of
> code in mm.h, but then there's also value to keeping all the ifdef
> ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK code together too.  So I'm a bit torn.
> What do you think?

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Mike.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-06-29 18:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-06-27 14:34 [PATCH 0/8] mm: cleanup usage of <asm/pgalloc.h> Mike Rapoport
2020-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 1/8] mm: remove unneeded includes " Mike Rapoport
2020-06-29 15:41   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 2/8] opeinrisc: switch to generic version of pte allocation Mike Rapoport
2020-06-27 21:23   ` Stafford Horne
2020-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 3/8] xtensa: " Mike Rapoport
2020-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 4/8] asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic pmd_alloc_one() and pmd_free_one() Mike Rapoport
2020-06-27 19:03   ` Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-28  7:10     ` Mike Rapoport
2020-06-29 15:59     ` Mike Rapoport [this message]
2020-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 5/8] asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic pud_alloc_one() and pud_free_one() Mike Rapoport
2020-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 6/8] asm-generic: pgalloc: provide generic pgd_free() Mike Rapoport
2020-06-29 15:42   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 7/8] mm: move lib/ioremap.c to mm/ Mike Rapoport
2020-06-27 14:34 ` [PATCH 8/8] mm: move p?d_alloc_track to separate header file Mike Rapoport
2020-06-27 18:31 ` [PATCH 0/8] mm: cleanup usage of <asm/pgalloc.h> Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-27 18:46 ` [PATCH 9/8] mm: Account PMD tables like PTE tables Matthew Wilcox
2020-06-28  6:59   ` Mike Rapoport
2020-06-29 14:01 ` [PATCH 0/8] mm: cleanup usage of <asm/pgalloc.h> Pekka Enberg
2020-07-02 21:46 ` Mike Rapoport

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