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SubjectRe: [PATCH 34/34] mm: dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct page
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Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>
> > > > > Could you make the check a CONFIG option? CONFIG_PTLOCK_DOES_NOT_FIT_IN_PAGE_STRUCT or
> > > > > so?
> > > >
> > > > No. We will have to track what affects sizeof(spinlock_t) manually.
> > > > Not a fun and error prune.
> > >
> > > You can generate a config option depending on the size of the object via
> > > Kbuild. Kbuild will determine the setting before building the kernel as a
> > > whole by runing some small C program.
> >
> > I don't think it's any better than what we have there now.
>
> Well with the CONFIG options we can then create macros etc that handle
> things differently depending on the ptl being in the page or not.

Feel free to propose a patch. I don't see much point.

--
Kirill A. Shutemov


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