Thread (58 messages) 58 messages, 8 authors, 2025-10-28

Re: [PATCH v3 05/13] mm: introduce CONFIG_ARCH_LAZY_MMU

From: Kevin Brodsky <hidden>
Date: 2025-10-20 10:37:50
Also in: linux-arm-kernel, linux-mm, lkml, sparclinux, xen-devel

On 18/10/2025 11:52, Mike Rapoport wrote:
quoted
@@ -231,7 +231,7 @@ static inline int pmd_dirty(pmd_t pmd)
  * held, but for kernel PTE updates, no lock is held). Nesting is not permitted
  * and the mode cannot be used in interrupt context.
  */
-#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_ENTER_LAZY_MMU_MODE
+#ifndef CONFIG_ARCH_LAZY_MMU
 static inline void arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode(void) {}
 static inline void arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(void) {}
 static inline void arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode(void) {}
diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
index 0e26f4fc8717..2fdcb42ca1a1 100644
--- a/mm/Kconfig
+++ b/mm/Kconfig
@@ -1372,6 +1372,9 @@ config PT_RECLAIM
 config FIND_NORMAL_PAGE
 	def_bool n
 
+config ARCH_LAZY_MMU
+	bool
+
I think a better name would be ARCH_HAS_LAZY_MMU and the config option fits
better to arch/Kconfig.
Sounds fine by me - I'm inclined to make it slightly longer still,
ARCH_HAS_LAZY_MMU_MODE, to avoid making "LAZY_MMU" sound like some HW
feature.

- Kevin
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