[PATCH] powerpc/tlb: Remove BUILD_BUG for book3s/32/tlbflush.h local_flush_tlb_page_psize

Michael Ellerman mpe at ellerman.id.au
Wed Jan 25 22:35:17 AEDT 2023


Benjamin Gray <bgray at linux.ibm.com> writes:
> Converts the BUILD_BUG to a WARN to allow building with a low/unoptimised
> compiler.
>
> The original expectation was that a compiler would see that the only
> usage of this function was in a function that is only called behind
> radix-only guards. And it worked this way on GCC. It seems Clang does
> not optimise away this call however, so thinks the function may be
> invoked and triggers the build bug as reported by the kernel test robot.
>
> https://lore.kernel.org/llvm/202301212348.eDkowvfF-lkp@intel.com
>
> This fix converts the build bug to a warning to allow builds without
> relying on particular compiler optimisation behaviours. The warning is
> not rate limited because this implementation should still never be called
> as-is, and anyone who might invoke it might appreciate it being very
> obvious that it's not behaving as expected.
>
> Fixes: 274d842fa1ef ("powerpc/tlb: Add local flush for page given mm_struct and psize")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp at intel.com>
> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Gray <bgray at linux.ibm.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/tlbflush.h | 4 ++--
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/tlbflush.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/tlbflush.h
> index 4be572908124..675196884640 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/tlbflush.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/32/tlbflush.h
> @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
>  #ifndef _ASM_POWERPC_BOOK3S_32_TLBFLUSH_H
>  #define _ASM_POWERPC_BOOK3S_32_TLBFLUSH_H
>  
> -#include <linux/build_bug.h>
> +#include <linux/bug.h>
>  
>  #define MMU_NO_CONTEXT      (0)
>  /*
> @@ -80,7 +80,7 @@ static inline void local_flush_tlb_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  static inline void local_flush_tlb_page_psize(struct mm_struct *mm,
>  					      unsigned long vmaddr, int psize)
>  {
> -	BUILD_BUG();
> +	WARN(1, "Unimplemented local TLB flush with psize");

Can't we just fall back to flush_tlb_page(vma, vmaddr)?

I'd guess those CPUs can't flush based on page size anyway.

cheers


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