Re: [PATCH] mm: Fix BUILD_BUG assertion in pmdp_clear_flush_young()

[David Daney]

On 12/19/2011 11:29 AM, David Rientjes wrote:
> On Mon, 19 Dec 2011, David Daney wrote:
>
> > From: David Daney<david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > It has been reported that when building for sh:
> >
> >      mm/pgtable-generic.c: In function 'pmdp_clear_flush_young':
> >      mm/pgtable-generic.c:76: error: call to '__build_bug_failed' declared with attribute error: BUILD_BUG failed
> >
> > Adding some ugle #ifdeffery will probably fix this issue.
>
> It won't, CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE has nothing at all to do with this.

Sorry for the noise.  You are correct.


> > Signed-off-by: David Daney<david.daney@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> > This is completely untested, but may be the best fix for this.  Linus
> > and others have expressed a dislike for using BUG() to detect what
> > should be dead code paths at runtime, but it seems to be the state of
> > the art here.
>
> The problem here is that HPAGE_PMD_MASK is being referenced without
> CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE.  pmdp_clear_flush_young() is only applicable
> with that config option enabled.  So rather than trying to minimize lines
> captured under an #ifdef by placing the BUG() directly in the function for
> asm-generic, you'll need to wrap pmd_clear_flush_young() with
> #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE and define its equivalent for
> CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE=n that breaks the build if not enabled.

That does sound like a better option.

I still think having the BUILD_BUG defined as we do in Andrew Morton's 
tree is the correct approach, and I don't want to see that reverted 
because of this ugliness.

Really this is hackery that should be cleaned up as you suggest, instead 
of being papered over with this BUG() thing.  I can't test SH things, 
otherwise I might look at it.  The SH maintainers should probably take a 
look instead.

David Daney

> >   mm/pgtable-generic.c |    2 +-
> >   1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/mm/pgtable-generic.c b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
> > index eb663fb..73784c8 100644
> > --- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c
> > +++ b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
> > @@ -70,7 +70,7 @@ int pmdp_clear_flush_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> >   			   unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp)
> >   {
> >   	int young;
> > -#ifndef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
> > +#if !defined(CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE) || !defined(CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE)
> >   	BUG();
> >   #endif /* CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE */
> >   	VM_BUG_ON(address&  ~HPAGE_PMD_MASK);

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