[RFC PATCH v2 2/3] mm: make pXd_addr_end() functions page-table entry aware

Dave Hansen dave.hansen at intel.com
Tue Sep 8 10:33:24 EDT 2020


On 9/7/20 11:00 AM, Gerald Schaefer wrote:
> x86:
> add/remove: 0/0 grow/shrink: 2/0 up/down: 10/0 (10)
> Function                                     old     new   delta
> vmemmap_populate                             587     592      +5
> munlock_vma_pages_range                      556     561      +5
> Total: Before=15534694, After=15534704, chg +0.00%
...
>  arch/x86/mm/init_64.c                    | 15 ++++-----
>  arch/x86/mm/kasan_init_64.c              | 16 +++++-----

I didn't do a super thorough review on this, but it generally looks OK
and the benefits of sharing more code between arches certainly outweigh
a few bytes of binary growth.  For the x86 bits at least, feel free to
add my ack.



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