[PATCH] mm: Merge pte_mkhuge() call into arch_make_huge_pte()
Christophe Leroy
christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu
Wed Feb 2 17:25:31 AEDT 2022
Le 02/02/2022 à 07:18, Mike Rapoport a écrit :
> On Wed, Feb 02, 2022 at 11:08:06AM +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
>> Each call into pte_mkhuge() is invariably followed by arch_make_huge_pte().
>> Instead arch_make_huge_pte() can accommodate pte_mkhuge() at the beginning.
>> This updates generic fallback stub for arch_make_huge_pte() and available
>> platforms definitions. This makes huge pte creation much cleaner and easier
>> to follow.
>
> Won't it break architectures that don't define arch_make_huge_pte()?
It shouldn't, see below
>> diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
>> index d1897a69c540..52c462390aee 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h
>> @@ -754,7 +754,7 @@ static inline void arch_clear_hugepage_flags(struct page *page) { }
>> static inline pte_t arch_make_huge_pte(pte_t entry, unsigned int shift,
>> vm_flags_t flags)
>> {
>> - return entry;
>> + return pte_mkhuge(entry);
>> }
>> #endif
>>
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