[PATCH -next v4 1/4] mm: page_table_check: move pxx_user_accessible_page into x86

Tong Tiangen tongtiangen at huawei.com
Wed Apr 20 20:05:57 PDT 2022



在 2022/4/21 0:44, Pasha Tatashin 写道:
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2022 at 2:45 AM Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen at huawei.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>> 在 2022/4/19 17:29, Anshuman Khandual 写道:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 4/18/22 09:14, Tong Tiangen wrote:
>>>> --- a/mm/page_table_check.c
>>>> +++ b/mm/page_table_check.c
>>>> @@ -10,6 +10,14 @@
>>>>    #undef pr_fmt
>>>>    #define pr_fmt(fmt)        "page_table_check: " fmt
>>>>
>>>> +#ifndef PMD_PAGE_SIZE
>>>> +#define PMD_PAGE_SIZE       PMD_SIZE
>>>> +#endif
>>>> +
>>>> +#ifndef PUD_PAGE_SIZE
>>>> +#define PUD_PAGE_SIZE       PUD_SIZE
>>>> +#endif
>>>
>>> Why cannot PMD_SIZE/PUD_SIZE be used on every platform instead ? What is the
>>> need for using PUD_PAGE_SIZE/PMD_PAGE_SIZE ? Are they different on x86 ?
>>> .
>>
>> Hi, Pasha:
>> I checked the definitions of PMD_SIZE/PUD_SIZE and
>> PUD_PAGE_SIZE/PMD_PAGE_SIZE in x86 architecture and their use outside
>> the architecture(eg: in mm/, all used PMD_SIZE/PUD_SIZE), Would it be
>> better to use a unified PMD_SIZE/PUD_SIZE here?
> 
> Hi Tong,
> 
> Yes, it makes sense to use PMD_SIZE/PUD_SIZE instead of
> PUD_PAGE_SIZE/PMD_PAGE_SIZE in page_table_check to be inline with the
> rest of the mm/
> 
> Pasha
> 
Hi Pasha and Anshuman:

OK, Functional correctness is not affected here, i plan to optimize this 
point after this patchset is merged.

Tong.

>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tong.
> .



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