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Date:   Fri, 8 May 2020 23:23:21 +0200
From:   Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
To:     Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/7] mm/vmalloc: Track which page-table levels were
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On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 09:10:48PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Fri, May 08, 2020 at 04:40:38PM +0200, Joerg Roedel wrote:
> > +	if (mask & ARCH_PAGE_TABLE_SYNC_MASK)
> > +		arch_sync_kernel_mappings(start, end);
> 
> So you're relying on the compiler DCE'ing the call in the 'normal' case.
> 
> Works I suppose, but I went over the patches twice to look for a default
> implementation of it before I figured that out ...

Yes, works on all architectures I compile-tested this on, with gcc-9.3.
I should probably add a comment about that.


	Joerg