[PATCH v4 05/12] mm: introduce CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_LAZY_MMU_MODE
Ritesh Harjani (IBM)
ritesh.list at gmail.com
Wed Nov 5 15:40:33 AEDT 2025
Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky at arm.com> writes:
> Architectures currently opt in for implementing lazy_mmu helpers by
> defining __HAVE_ARCH_ENTER_LAZY_MMU_MODE.
>
> In preparation for introducing a generic lazy_mmu layer that will
> require storage in task_struct, let's switch to a cleaner approach:
> instead of defining a macro, select a CONFIG option.
>
> This patch introduces CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_LAZY_MMU_MODE and has each
> arch select it when it implements lazy_mmu helpers.
> __HAVE_ARCH_ENTER_LAZY_MMU_MODE is removed and <linux/pgtable.h>
> relies on the new CONFIG instead.
>
> On x86, lazy_mmu helpers are only implemented if PARAVIRT_XXL is
> selected. This creates some complications in arch/x86/boot/, because
> a few files manually undefine PARAVIRT* options. As a result
> <asm/paravirt.h> does not define the lazy_mmu helpers, but this
> breaks the build as <linux/pgtable.h> only defines them if
> !CONFIG_ARCH_HAS_LAZY_MMU_MODE. There does not seem to be a clean
> way out of this - let's just undefine that new CONFIG too.
>
> Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 1 -
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/tlbflush-hash.h | 2 --
> arch/powerpc/platforms/Kconfig.cputype | 1 +
> arch/sparc/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/sparc/include/asm/tlbflush_64.h | 2 --
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 +
> arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.h | 1 +
> arch/x86/boot/startup/sme.c | 1 +
> arch/x86/include/asm/paravirt.h | 1 -
> include/linux/pgtable.h | 2 +-
> mm/Kconfig | 3 +++
> 12 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
Maybe we can add this to ... ?
Documentation/features/vm/lazy_mmu/arch-support.txt
#
# Feature name: lazy_mmu mode
# Kconfig: ARCH_HAS_LAZY_MMU_MODE
# description: arch supports arch_{enter|flush|leave}_lazy_mmu_mode()
#
-----------------------
| arch |status|
-----------------------
| arm64: | ok |
| powerpc: | ok |
| sparc: | ok |
| x86: | ok |
-----------------------
As for this patch, the changes are mostly straight forward around the
configs part. This looks good to me. Please feel free to add:
Reviewed-by: Ritesh Harjani (IBM) <ritesh.list at gmail.com>
-ritesh
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