Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Jun 2022 17:57:17 +0100 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/6] mm: hugetlb_vmemmap: delete hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_enabled() |
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On Mon, Jun 13, 2022 at 02:35:07PM +0800, Muchun Song wrote: > The name hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_enabled() a bit confusing as it tests > two conditions (enabled and pages in use). Instead of coming up to > an appropriate name, we could just delete it. There is already a > discussion about deleting it in thread [1]. > > There is only one user of hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_enabled() outside of > hugetlb_vmemmap, that is flush_dcache_page() in arch/arm64/mm/flush.c. > However, it does not need to call hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_enabled() > in flush_dcache_page() since HugeTLB pages are always fully mapped and > only head page will be set PG_dcache_clean meaning only head page's flag > may need to be cleared (see commit cf5a501d985b). So it is easy to > remove hugetlb_optimize_vmemmap_enabled(). > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/c77c61c8-8a5a-87e8-db89-d04d8aaab4cc@oracle.com/ [1] > Signed-off-by: Muchun Song <songmuchun@bytedance.com> > Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> > Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> > Cc: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
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