On Sun, Jul 8, 2018 at 10:40 PM, Huang, Ying <[email protected]> wrote:
> Dan Williams <[email protected]> writes:
>
>> On Thu, Jun 21, 2018 at 8:55 PM Huang, Ying <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> From: Huang Ying <[email protected]>
>>>
>>> Previously, the PMD swap operations are only enabled for
>>> CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION.  Because they are only used by the
>>> THP migration support.  We will support PMD swap mapping to the huge
>>> swap cluster and swapin the THP as a whole.  That will be enabled via
>>> CONFIG_THP_SWAP and needs these PMD swap operations.  So enable the
>>> PMD swap operations for CONFIG_THP_SWAP too.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: "Huang, Ying" <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Shaohua Li <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Minchan Kim <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Dave Hansen <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Naoya Horiguchi <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Zi Yan <[email protected]>
>>> Cc: Daniel Jordan <[email protected]>
>>> ---
>>>  arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h |  2 +-
>>>  include/asm-generic/pgtable.h  |  2 +-
>>>  include/linux/swapops.h        | 44 
>>> ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>>>  3 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
>>> index 99ecde23c3ec..13bf58838daf 100644
>>> --- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
>>> +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
>>> @@ -1224,7 +1224,7 @@ static inline pte_t pte_swp_clear_soft_dirty(pte_t 
>>> pte)
>>>         return pte_clear_flags(pte, _PAGE_SWP_SOFT_DIRTY);
>>>  }
>>>
>>> -#ifdef CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION
>>> +#if defined(CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION) || defined(CONFIG_THP_SWAP)
>>
>> How about introducing a new config symbol representing the common
>> infrastructure between the two and have them select that symbol.
>
> The common infrastructure shared by two mechanisms is PMD swap entry.
> But I didn't find there are many places where the common infrastructure
> is used.  So I think it may be over-engineering to introduce a new
> config symbol but use it for so few times.
>
>> Would that also allow us to clean up the usage of
>> CONFIG_ARCH_ENABLE_THP_MIGRATION in fs/proc/task_mmu.c? In other
>> words, what's the point of having nice ifdef'd alternatives in header
>> files when ifdefs are still showing up in C files, all of it should be
>> optionally determined by header files.
>
> Unfortunately, I think it is not a easy task to wrap all C code via
> #ifdef in header files.  And it may be over-engineering to wrap them
> all.  I guess this is why there are still some #ifdef in C files.

That's the entire point. Yes, over-engineer the header files so the
actual C code is more readable.

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