On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 5:48 PM, Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote:
> On Sun, 7 Jan 2018, Jike Song wrote:
>> On Sun, Jan 7, 2018 at 3:33 AM, Thomas Gleixner <t...@linutronix.de> wrote:
>> > On Sun, 7 Jan 2018, Jike Song wrote:
>> >
>> > Care to explain why you think this is not needed?
>> >
>>
>> Hi Thomas,
>>
>> Look at one of the original code snippets:
>>
>> 162 if (pgd_none(*pgd)) {
>> 163 unsigned long new_p4d_page = __get_free_page(gfp);
>> 164 if (!new_p4d_page)
>> 165 return NULL;
>> 166
>> 167 if (pgd_none(*pgd)) {
>> 168 set_pgd(pgd, __pgd(_KERNPG_TABLE |
>> __pa(new_p4d_page)));
>> 169 new_p4d_page = 0;
>> 170 }
>> 171 if (new_p4d_page)
>> 172 free_page(new_p4d_page);
>> 173 }
>>
>> Correct me if I'm too dumb to see the rationale here, but to me there
>> can't be any difference between
>> two pgd_none(*pgd) of L162 and L167, so it is always false in L171.
>
> Right, but this kind of explanation wants to be in the changelog. Empty
> changelogs for this kind of change are just not acceptable.
>
Roger that, just sent v2 out :)
I'm not quite sure but I CCed sta...@kernel.org anyway.
> Thanks,
>
> tglx
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Thanks,
Jike
