Re: [PATCH 34/34] mm: dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannotbe embedded to struct page

[Christoph Lameter]

On Mon, 14 Oct 2013, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:

> > > > Could you make the check a CONFIG option? CONFIG_PTLOCK_DOES_NOT_FIT_IN_PAGE_STRUCT or
> > > > so?
> > >
> > > No. We will have to track what affects sizeof(spinlock_t) manually.
> > > Not a fun and error prune.
> >
> > You can generate a config option depending on the size of the object via
> > Kbuild. Kbuild will determine the setting before building the kernel as a
> > whole by runing some small C program.
>
> I don't think it's any better than what we have there now.

Well with the CONFIG options we can then create macros etc that handle
things differently depending on the ptl being in the page or not.

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