Re: [PATCH] mm/mm_init.c: remove obsolete macro HASH_SMALL

From: Miaohe Lin
Date: Sat Jun 17 2023 - 04:40:02 EST


On 2023/6/17 15:56, Mike Rapoport wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 17, 2023 at 03:09:55PM +0800, Miaohe Lin wrote:
>> HASH_SMALL only works when parameter numentries is 0. But the sole caller
>> futex_init() never calls alloc_large_system_hash() with numentries set to
>> 0.
>

Thanks for your quick review.

> Doesn't it?
> What happens when CONFIG_BASE_SMALL is set?

When CONFIG_BASE_SMALL is set, futex_hashsize is set to 16 and alloc_large_system_hash() is called with
numentries == 16 && flags == HASH_SMALL. But in the alloc_large_system_hash(), we have the below logic:

alloc_large_system_hash()
{
if (!numentries) { /* numentries == 16 here, so this code block is skipped. */
...
if (unlikely(flags & HASH_SMALL)) { /* So as here. */
...
}
...
}

So HASH_SMALL is just unused. Or am I miss something?

Thanks.

>
>> So HASH_SMALL is obsolete and remove it.
>
>> Signed-off-by: Miaohe Lin <linmiaohe@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> include/linux/memblock.h | 2 --
>> kernel/futex/core.c | 3 +--
>> mm/mm_init.c | 10 +---------
>> 3 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/include/linux/memblock.h b/include/linux/memblock.h
>> index f71ff9f0ec81..346d80809517 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/memblock.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/memblock.h
>> @@ -581,8 +581,6 @@ extern void *alloc_large_system_hash(const char *tablename,
>> unsigned long high_limit);
>>
>> #define HASH_EARLY 0x00000001 /* Allocating during early boot? */
>> -#define HASH_SMALL 0x00000002 /* sub-page allocation allowed, min
>> - * shift passed via *_hash_shift */
>> #define HASH_ZERO 0x00000004 /* Zero allocated hash table */
>>
>> /* Only NUMA needs hash distribution. 64bit NUMA architectures have
>> diff --git a/kernel/futex/core.c b/kernel/futex/core.c
>> index 514e4582b863..f10587d1d481 100644
>> --- a/kernel/futex/core.c
>> +++ b/kernel/futex/core.c
>> @@ -1132,8 +1132,7 @@ static int __init futex_init(void)
>> #endif
>>
>> futex_queues = alloc_large_system_hash("futex", sizeof(*futex_queues),
>> - futex_hashsize, 0,
>> - futex_hashsize < 256 ? HASH_SMALL : 0,
>> + futex_hashsize, 0, 0,
>> &futex_shift, NULL,
>> futex_hashsize, futex_hashsize);
>> futex_hashsize = 1UL << futex_shift;
>> diff --git a/mm/mm_init.c b/mm/mm_init.c
>> index d393631599a7..fab3c4649d5b 100644
>> --- a/mm/mm_init.c
>> +++ b/mm/mm_init.c
>> @@ -2492,15 +2492,7 @@ void *__init alloc_large_system_hash(const char *tablename,
>> else
>> numentries <<= (PAGE_SHIFT - scale);
>>
>> - /* Make sure we've got at least a 0-order allocation.. */
>> - if (unlikely(flags & HASH_SMALL)) {
>> - /* Makes no sense without HASH_EARLY */
>> - WARN_ON(!(flags & HASH_EARLY));
>> - if (!(numentries >> *_hash_shift)) {
>> - numentries = 1UL << *_hash_shift;
>> - BUG_ON(!numentries);
>> - }
>> - } else if (unlikely((numentries * bucketsize) < PAGE_SIZE))
>> + if (unlikely((numentries * bucketsize) < PAGE_SIZE))
>> numentries = PAGE_SIZE / bucketsize;
>> }
>> numentries = roundup_pow_of_two(numentries);
>> --
>> 2.27.0
>>
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