Re: linux-next: Tree for Apr 6 (arch/x86/mm/init_64.c)

From: Oscar Salvador
Date: Tue Apr 06 2021 - 15:57:10 EST


On Tue, Apr 06, 2021 at 11:39:47AM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:

> > Looks like that compound "if" is too much for gcc 7.5.0 to handle:
> >
> > } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP) &&
> > vmemmap_pmd_is_unused(addr, next)) {
> > free_hugepage_table(pmd_page(*pmd),
> > altmap);
> > spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
> > pmd_clear(pmd);
> > spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
> > }
> >
> >
>
> This is what I am using for now:

Hi Randy

Yeah, that is what v4 was using [1].
We decided to get rid of the ifdef for costimetic reasons but it seems
it does not do the trick.

I will ask Andrew to squash that on top.

[1] https://patchwork.kernel.org/project/linux-mm/patch/20210301083230.30924-4-osalvador@xxxxxxx/

Thanks

>
> ---
> ---
> arch/x86/mm/init_64.c | 6 ++++--
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> --- linux-next-20210406.orig/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> +++ linux-next-20210406/arch/x86/mm/init_64.c
> @@ -1123,14 +1123,16 @@ remove_pmd_table(pmd_t *pmd_start, unsig
> pmd_clear(pmd);
> spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
> pages++;
> - } else if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP) &&
> - vmemmap_pmd_is_unused(addr, next)) {
> + }
> +#ifdef CONFIG_SPARSEMEM_VMEMMAP
> + else if (vmemmap_pmd_is_unused(addr, next)) {
> free_hugepage_table(pmd_page(*pmd),
> altmap);
> spin_lock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
> pmd_clear(pmd);
> spin_unlock(&init_mm.page_table_lock);
> }
> +#endif
>
> continue;
> }
>

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Oscar Salvador
SUSE L3