On Mon, 11 May 2015 12:09:30 +0530 "Aneesh Kumar K.V"
<aneesh.ku...@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> Architectures like ppc64 [1] need to do special things while clearing
> pmd before a collapse. For them this operation is largely different
> from a normal hugepage pte clear. Hence add a separate function
> to clear pmd before collapse. After this patch pmdp_* functions
> operate only on hugepage pte, and not on regular pmd_t values
> pointing to page table.
>
> [1] ppc64 needs to invalidate all the normal page pte mappings we
> already have inserted in the hardware hash page table. But before
> doing that we need to make sure there are no parallel hash page
> table insert going on. So we need to do a kick_all_cpus_sync()
> before flushing the older hash table entries. By moving this to
> a separate function we capture these details and mention how it
> is different from a hugepage pte clear.
>
> This patch is a cleanup and only does code movement for clarity.
> There should not be any change in functionality.
>
> ...
>
> +#ifndef pmd_collapse_flush
> +#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> +static inline pmd_t pmd_collapse_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> + unsigned long address,
> + pmd_t *pmdp)
> +{
> + return pmdp_clear_flush(vma, address, pmdp);
> +}
> +#else
> +static inline pmd_t pmd_collapse_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> + unsigned long address,
> + pmd_t *pmdp)
> +{
> + BUILD_BUG();
> + return __pmd(0);
> +}
> +#endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
You want
#define pmd_collapse_flush pmd_collapse_flush
here, just in case a later header file performs the same test.
> +#endif
> +
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