Re: [PATCH RFC 0/4] mm: percpu: Cleanup percpu first chunk funciton

From: Kefeng Wang
Date: Tue Nov 30 2021 - 01:53:43 EST



On 2021/11/30 6:55, Dennis Zhou wrote:
Hello,

On Sun, Nov 21, 2021 at 05:35:53PM +0800, Kefeng Wang wrote:
When support page mapping percpu first chunk allocator on arm64, we
found there are lots of duplicated codes in percpu embed/page first
chunk allocator. This patchset is aimed to cleanup them and should
no funciton change, only test on arm64.

Kefeng Wang (4):
mm: percpu: Generalize percpu related config
mm: percpu: Add pcpu_fc_cpu_to_node_fn_t typedef
mm: percpu: Add generic pcpu_fc_alloc/free funciton
mm: percpu: Add generic pcpu_populate_pte() function

arch/arm64/Kconfig | 20 +----
arch/ia64/Kconfig | 9 +--
arch/mips/Kconfig | 10 +--
arch/mips/mm/init.c | 14 +---
arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 17 +---
arch/powerpc/kernel/setup_64.c | 92 +--------------------
arch/riscv/Kconfig | 10 +--
arch/sparc/Kconfig | 12 +--
arch/sparc/kernel/smp_64.c | 105 +-----------------------
arch/x86/Kconfig | 17 +---
arch/x86/kernel/setup_percpu.c | 66 ++-------------
drivers/base/arch_numa.c | 68 +---------------
include/linux/percpu.h | 13 +--
mm/Kconfig | 12 +++
mm/percpu.c | 143 +++++++++++++++++++++++++--------
15 files changed, 165 insertions(+), 443 deletions(-)

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2.26.2

I've made a few comments. I think this will be a little bit of a
challenge to get through due to it touching so many architectures. For
ease, it probably makes sense to run it through mny tree, but we'll need
explicit acks as I mentioned.

I like getting rid of the pcpu_alloc_bootmem()/pcpu_free_bootmem()
functions. However, let's keep the implementation identical to x86.
ok , will change patch3 in v2


I don't think we should get rid of the populate_pte_fn(). I'm not
comfortable changing x86's implementation. Simply offer a NULL, and if
NULL use the default.

As replied in patch4, we use __weak method, and x86's implementation is

not changed in patch4, is this ok?


Do you have a tree that intel pulls? I suggest cleaning up the patches
and pushing to a remote branch that they pick up. That would have caught
the mips typo. Send a PR creating a file in [1] for your branch, github
is fine. Basic validation needs to be done before I can pick this up
too on more than arm64.

Ok, x86/arm64/riscv are tested, but I don't has ppc/mips/sparc compliler.

I will try to push new version into github and test by lkp.

Thanks.


[1] https://github.com/intel/lkp-tests/tree/master/repo/linux

Thanks,
Dennis
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