[PATCH 01/10] mm: Move common parts of pagetable_*_[cd]tor to helpers
Peter Zijlstra
peterz at infradead.org
Thu Dec 19 09:19:20 PST 2024
On Thu, Dec 19, 2024 at 04:44:16PM +0000, Kevin Brodsky wrote:
> Besides the ptlock management at PTE/PMD level, all the
> pagetable_*_[cd]tor have the same implementation. Introduce common
> helpers for all levels to reduce the duplication.
Uff, I forgot to Cc you on the discussion here, sorry!:
https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1734526570.git.zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
we now have two series doing more or less overlapping things :/
You can in fact trivially merge the all the implementations -- the
apparent non-common bit (ptlock_free) is a no-op for all those other
levels because they'll be having ptdesc->lock == NULL.
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