Thread (80 messages) 80 messages, 4 authors, 2024-02-13

Re: [PATCH v5 03/25] mm: Make pte_next_pfn() a wrapper around pte_advance_pfn()

From: David Hildenbrand <hidden>
Date: 2024-02-12 12:14:29
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-mm, lkml

On 02.02.24 09:07, Ryan Roberts wrote:
quoted hunk ↗ jump to hunk
The goal is to be able to advance a PTE by an arbitrary number of PFNs.
So introduce a new API that takes a nr param.

We are going to remove pte_next_pfn() and replace it with
pte_advance_pfn(). As a first step, implement pte_next_pfn() as a
wrapper around pte_advance_pfn() so that we can incrementally switch the
architectures over. Once all arches are moved over, we will change all
the core-mm callers to call pte_advance_pfn() directly and remove the
wrapper.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
---
  include/linux/pgtable.h | 8 +++++++-
  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
index 5e7eaf8f2b97..815d92dcb96b 100644
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -214,9 +214,15 @@ static inline int pmd_dirty(pmd_t pmd)
  
  
  #ifndef pte_next_pfn
+#ifndef pte_advance_pfn
+static inline pte_t pte_advance_pfn(pte_t pte, unsigned long nr)
+{
+	return __pte(pte_val(pte) + (nr << PFN_PTE_SHIFT));
+}
+#endif
  static inline pte_t pte_next_pfn(pte_t pte)
  {
-	return __pte(pte_val(pte) + (1UL << PFN_PTE_SHIFT));
+	return pte_advance_pfn(pte, 1);
  }
  #endif
  
I do wonder if we simply want to leave pte_next_pfn() around? Especially 
patch #4, #6 don't really benefit from the change? So are the other 
set_ptes() implementations.

That is, only convert all pte_next_pfn()->pte_advance_pfn(), and leave a
pte_next_pfn() macro in place.

Any downsides to that? This patch here would become:

#ifndef pte_advance_pfn
static inline pte_t pte_advance_pfn(pte_t pte, unsigned long nr)
{
	return __pte(pte_val(pte) + (nr << PFN_PTE_SHIFT));
}
#endif

#ifndef pte_next_pfn
#define pte_next_pfn(pte) pte_advance_pfn(pte, 1)
#endif

As you convert the three arches, make them define pte_advance_pfn and 
udnefine pte_next_pfn. in the end, you can drop the #ifdef around 
pte_next_pfn here.

-- 
Cheers,

David / dhildenb
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