[PATCH hmm 5/6] mm/hmm: remove the CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE #ifdef

Jason Gunthorpe jgg at mellanox.com
Mon Mar 23 17:33:45 UTC 2020


On Sat, Mar 21, 2020 at 09:43:17AM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 20, 2020 at 01:49:04PM -0300, Jason Gunthorpe wrote:
> > From: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg at mellanox.com>
> > 
> > This code can be compiled when CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE is off, so
> > remove the ifdef.
> 
> It can compile, but will the compiler optimize it away?  

Yes, the enclosing conditional:

if (pmd_devmap(pmd) || pmd_trans_huge(pmd)) {

is statically false if !CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE

This is proven today, as the fallback stub is a function prototype
with no implementation:

-int hmm_vma_handle_pmd(struct mm_walk *walk, unsigned long addr,
-		unsigned long end, uint64_t *pfns, pmd_t pmd);

If the compiler wasn't optimizing the above branch we'd get link
failures.

Jason


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