Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: Add pmd_mknotpresent()

From: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:25:58 +0100

* Gerald Schaefer <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On Sun, 28 Oct 2012 14:10:14 +0100
> Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > There's a related problem on s390: other THP implementations 
> > have pmd_mknotpresent() while s390 not, resulting in:
> > 
> >   mm/huge_memory.c:1543:2: error: implicit declaration of function 'pmd_mknotpresent'
> > 
> > The (untested!) patch below adds the s390 version of this 
> > method.
> > 
> > Gerald, Martin, did I get the S390 details right?
> 
> The upstream thp patches for s390 fixed that by adding pmdp_invalidate() and
> replacing the pmd_mknotpresent() in mm/huge_memory.c, see git commit 46dcde73.
> The pmdp_invalidate() is already included linux-next, so it should be ok to
> just change mm/huge_memory.c similar to upstream:
> 
> diff --git a/mm/huge_memory.c b/mm/huge_memory.c
> index f1c2679..842b6df 100644
> --- a/mm/huge_memory.c
> +++ b/mm/huge_memory.c
> @@ -1537,8 +1537,7 @@ static int __split_huge_page_map(struct page *page,
>  	 * complete. The ptl also protects against concurrent faults due to
>  	 * making the pmd not-present.
>  	 */
> -	set_pmd_at(mm, address, pmd, pmd_mknotpresent(*pmd));
> -	flush_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE);
> +	pmdp_invalidate(vma, address, pmd);
>  	pmd_populate(mm, pmd, pgtable);
>  	ret = 1;
> 
> With this, s390 does not need a pmd_mknotpresent(), and using 
> set_pmd_at(..., pmd_mknotpresent()) would be wrong on s390 
> anyway because we need a flushing operation to change a valid 
> pmd.

Ok, great - so to me it seems that once the two trees are merged 
there's no extra change needed for s390 - so I dropped the 
patch.

Thanks,

	Ingo