Re: [PATCH v3 02/17] riscv: mm: Skip pgtable level check in {pud,p4d}_alloc_one

Hi Palmer,

On 2024/12/28 00:40, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> On Mon, 23 Dec 2024 01:40:48 PST (-0800), [email protected] wrote:
>> From: Kevin Brodsky <[email protected]>
>>
>> {pmd,pud,p4d}_alloc_one() is never called if the corresponding page
>> table level is folded, as {pmd,pud,p4d}_alloc() already does the
>> required check. We can therefore remove the runtime page table level
>> checks in {pud,p4d}_alloc_one. The PUD helper becomes equivalent to
>> the generic version, so we remove it altogether.
>>
>> This is consistent with the way arm64 and x86 handle this situation
>> (runtime check in p4d_free() only).
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <[email protected]>
>> Acked-by: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
>> Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <[email protected]>
>> ---
>>  arch/riscv/include/asm/pgalloc.h | 22 ++++------------------
>>  1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgalloc.h 
>> b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgalloc.h
>> index f52264304f772..8ad0bbe838a24 100644
>> --- a/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgalloc.h
>> +++ b/arch/riscv/include/asm/pgalloc.h
>> @@ -12,7 +12,6 @@
>>  #include <asm/tlb.h>
>>
>>  #ifdef CONFIG_MMU
>> -#define __HAVE_ARCH_PUD_ALLOC_ONE
>>  #define __HAVE_ARCH_PUD_FREE
>>  #include <asm-generic/pgalloc.h>
>>
>> @@ -88,15 +87,6 @@ static inline void pgd_populate_safe(struct 
>> mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd,
>>      }
>>  }
>>
>> -#define pud_alloc_one pud_alloc_one
>> -static inline pud_t *pud_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned 
>> long addr)
>> -{
>> -    if (pgtable_l4_enabled)
>> -        return __pud_alloc_one(mm, addr);
>> -
>> -    return NULL;
>> -}
>> -
>>  #define pud_free pud_free
>>  static inline void pud_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pud_t *pud)
>>  {
>> @@ -118,15 +108,11 @@ static inline void __pud_free_tlb(struct 
>> mmu_gather *tlb, pud_t *pud,
>>  #define p4d_alloc_one p4d_alloc_one
>>  static inline p4d_t *p4d_alloc_one(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned 
>> long addr)
>>  {
>> -    if (pgtable_l5_enabled) {
>> -        gfp_t gfp = GFP_PGTABLE_USER;
>> -
>> -        if (mm == &init_mm)
>> -            gfp = GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL;
>> -        return (p4d_t *)get_zeroed_page(gfp);
>> -    }
>> +    gfp_t gfp = GFP_PGTABLE_USER;
>>
>> -    return NULL;
>> +    if (mm == &init_mm)
>> +        gfp = GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL;
>> +    return (p4d_t *)get_zeroed_page(gfp);
>>  }
>>
>>  static inline void __p4d_free(struct mm_struct *mm, p4d_t *p4d)
> 
> Acked-by: Palmer Dabbelt <[email protected]>

Thank you for reviewing the patch!

> 
> Are you trying to keep these together, or do you want me to try and pick 
> up the RISC-V bits on their own?

I prefer to keep them together because later patches depend on this one.
And this patch series has been merged into mm-unstable branch.

Thanks!