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| author | Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com> | 2023-08-08 02:05:13 +0300 |
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| committer | Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> | 2023-08-21 23:37:58 +0300 |
| commit | 9a4bbd8d975e01a777005e00c0e26d72bb6cc15a (patch) | |
| tree | 6bf2cf8794a6719d88f336b3c18c89aebcd2c57f /Documentation/mm | |
| parent | da9aefca789d753071e3f36fa940da329c11f7f8 (diff) | |
| download | linux-9a4bbd8d975e01a777005e00c0e26d72bb6cc15a.tar.xz | |
mm: remove pgtable_{pmd, pte}_page_{ctor, dtor}() wrappers
These functions are no longer necessary. Remove them and cleanup
Documentation referencing them.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20230807230513.102486-32-vishal.moola@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Vishal Moola (Oracle) <vishal.moola@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mike Rapoport (IBM) <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@csgroup.eu>
Cc: Claudio Imbrenda <imbrenda@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@kernel.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert+renesas@glider.be>
Cc: Guo Ren <guoren@kernel.org>
Cc: Huacai Chen <chenhuacai@kernel.org>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Cc: Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@rivosinc.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@alpha.franken.de>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/mm')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/mm/split_page_table_lock.rst | 12 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 6 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/mm/split_page_table_lock.rst b/Documentation/mm/split_page_table_lock.rst index a834fad9de12..e4f6972eb6c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/mm/split_page_table_lock.rst +++ b/Documentation/mm/split_page_table_lock.rst @@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ Support of split page table lock by an architecture =================================================== There's no need in special enabling of PTE split page table lock: everything -required is done by pgtable_pte_page_ctor() and pgtable_pte_page_dtor(), which +required is done by pagetable_pte_ctor() and pagetable_pte_dtor(), which must be called on PTE table allocation / freeing. Make sure the architecture doesn't use slab allocator for page table @@ -68,8 +68,8 @@ This field shares storage with page->ptl. PMD split lock only makes sense if you have more than two page table levels. -PMD split lock enabling requires pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() call on PMD table -allocation and pgtable_pmd_page_dtor() on freeing. +PMD split lock enabling requires pagetable_pmd_ctor() call on PMD table +allocation and pagetable_pmd_dtor() on freeing. Allocation usually happens in pmd_alloc_one(), freeing in pmd_free() and pmd_free_tlb(), but make sure you cover all PMD table allocation / freeing @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ paths: i.e X86_PAE preallocate few PMDs on pgd_alloc(). With everything in place you can set CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK. -NOTE: pgtable_pte_page_ctor() and pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() can fail -- it must +NOTE: pagetable_pte_ctor() and pagetable_pmd_ctor() can fail -- it must be handled properly. page->ptl @@ -97,7 +97,7 @@ trick: split lock with enabled DEBUG_SPINLOCK or DEBUG_LOCK_ALLOC, but costs one more cache line for indirect access; -The spinlock_t allocated in pgtable_pte_page_ctor() for PTE table and in -pgtable_pmd_page_ctor() for PMD table. +The spinlock_t allocated in pagetable_pte_ctor() for PTE table and in +pagetable_pmd_ctor() for PMD table. Please, never access page->ptl directly -- use appropriate helper. |