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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name>
Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation
Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2013 16:43:51 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131105164351.b2c63109.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20131105231310.GE20167@shutemov.name>

On Wed, 6 Nov 2013 01:13:11 +0200 "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@shutemov.name> wrote:

> > Really the function shouldn't exist in this case.  It is __init so the
> > sin is not terrible, but can this be arranged?
> 
> I would like to get rid of __ptlock_alloc()/__ptlock_free() too, but I
> don't see a way within C: we need to know sizeof(spinlock_t) on
> preprocessor stage.
> 
> We can have a hack on kbuild level: write small helper program to find out
> sizeof(spinlock_t) before start building and turn it into define.
> But it's overkill from my POV. And cross-compilation will be a fun.

Yes, it doesn't seem worth the fuss.  The compiler will remove all this
code anyway, so for example ptlock_cache_init() becomes an empty function.

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  reply	other threads:[~2013-11-06  0:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-10-22 11:53 Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-10-22 12:55 ` Fengguang Wu
2013-11-04 10:42 ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-11-05 23:01 ` Andrew Morton
2013-11-05 22:42   ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-11-05 23:56     ` Andrew Morton
2013-11-05 23:13       ` Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-11-06  0:43         ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2013-11-06  9:31         ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 11:18           ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 13:31             ` lockref: Use bloated_spinlocks to avoid explicit config dependencies Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-11-06 14:32               ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 13:21           ` [PATCH] mm: create a separate slab for page->ptl allocation Kirill A. Shutemov
2013-11-06 14:30             ` Peter Zijlstra
2013-11-06 10:34         ` Will Deacon
2013-11-06 10:49           ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2013-11-06 11:02           ` Peter Zijlstra

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