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[v2,1/9] mm/clear_huge_page: allow arch override for clear_huge_page()

Message ID 20230830184958.2333078-2-ankur.a.arora@oracle.com (mailing list archive)
State New
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Series x86/clear_huge_page: multi-page clearing | expand

Commit Message

Ankur Arora Aug. 30, 2023, 6:49 p.m. UTC 
clear_huge_page() is constrained to process a page-at-a-time
because it also handles the CONFIG_HIGHMEM case.

Mark __weak to allow for arch specific optimizations.

Suggested-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Ankur Arora <ankur.a.arora@oracle.com>
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 mm/memory.c | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
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diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
index 405a483d2fd1..3854f0b9b3a9 100644
--- a/mm/memory.c
+++ b/mm/memory.c
@@ -5982,8 +5982,9 @@  static int clear_subpage(unsigned long addr, int idx, void *arg)
 	return 0;
 }
 
-void clear_huge_page(struct page *page,
-		     unsigned long addr_hint, unsigned int pages_per_huge_page)
+__weak void clear_huge_page(struct page *page,
+			    unsigned long addr_hint,
+			    unsigned int pages_per_huge_page)
 {
 	unsigned long addr = addr_hint &
 		~(((unsigned long)pages_per_huge_page << PAGE_SHIFT) - 1);