Re: [RFC PATCH 05/26] hugetlb: add CONFIG_HUGETLB_HIGH_GRANULARITY_MAPPING

From: Mina Almasry
Date: Tue Jun 28 2022 - 16:13:23 EST


On Mon, Jun 27, 2022 at 5:29 AM manish.mishra <manish.mishra@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> On 24/06/22 11:06 pm, James Houghton wrote:
> > This adds the Kconfig to enable or disable high-granularity mapping. It
> > is enabled by default for architectures that use
> > ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB.
> >
> > There is also an arch-specific config ARCH_HAS_SPECIAL_HUGETLB_HGM which
> > controls whether or not the architecture has been updated to support
> > HGM if it doesn't use general HugeTLB.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton@xxxxxxxxxx>
> reviewed-by:manish.mishra@xxxxxxxxxxx

Mostly minor nits,

Reviewed-by: Mina Almasry <almasrymina@xxxxxxxxxx>

> > ---
> > fs/Kconfig | 7 +++++++
> > 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
> >
> > diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
> > index 5976eb33535f..d76c7d812656 100644
> > --- a/fs/Kconfig
> > +++ b/fs/Kconfig
> > @@ -268,6 +268,13 @@ config HUGETLB_PAGE_OPTIMIZE_VMEMMAP_DEFAULT_ON
> > to enable optimizing vmemmap pages of HugeTLB by default. It can then
> > be disabled on the command line via hugetlb_free_vmemmap=off.
> >
> > +config ARCH_HAS_SPECIAL_HUGETLB_HGM

Nit: would have preferred just ARCH_HAS_HUGETLB_HGM, as ARCH implies
arch-specific.

> > + bool
> > +
> > +config HUGETLB_HIGH_GRANULARITY_MAPPING
> > + def_bool ARCH_WANT_GENERAL_HUGETLB || ARCH_HAS_SPECIAL_HUGETLB_HGM

Nit: would have preferred to go with either HGM _or_
HIGH_GRANULARITY_MAPPING (or whatever new name comes up), rather than
both, for consistency's sake.

> > + depends on HUGETLB_PAGE
> > +
> > config MEMFD_CREATE
> > def_bool TMPFS || HUGETLBFS
> >