Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757409Ab3JJUJc (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:09:32 -0400 Received: from mga01.intel.com ([192.55.52.88]:10589 "EHLO mga01.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756448Ab3JJUJb (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Oct 2013 16:09:31 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.90,1074,1371106800"; d="scan'208";a="415077084" From: "Kirill A. Shutemov" To: Christoph Lameter Cc: "Kirill A. Shutemov" , Andrew Morton , Peter Zijlstra , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <00000141a3f48ada-37ee9c14-2f2b-40a2-93f4-70258363351b-000000@email.amazonses.com> References: <1381428359-14843-1-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> <1381428359-14843-35-git-send-email-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> <00000141a3f48ada-37ee9c14-2f2b-40a2-93f4-70258363351b-000000@email.amazonses.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH 34/34] mm: dynamically allocate page->ptl if it cannot be embedded to struct page Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20131010200921.91D84E0090@blue.fi.intel.com> Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2013 23:09:21 +0300 (EEST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 729 Lines: 25 Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Thu, 10 Oct 2013, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > > +static inline bool ptlock_alloc(struct page *page) > > +{ > > + if (sizeof(spinlock_t) > sizeof(page->ptl)) > > + return __ptlock_alloc(page); > > + return true; > > +} > > Could you make the check a CONFIG option? CONFIG_PTLOCK_DOES_NOT_FIT_IN_PAGE_STRUCT or > so? No. We will have to track what affects sizeof(spinlock_t) manually. Not a fun and error prune. C sucks. ;) -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/