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SubjectRe: [RESEND PATCH] x86: remove redundant check for kmem_cache_create()
Hi Chengguang,

Thank you for the patch! Perhaps something to improve:

[auto build test WARNING on tip/x86/core]
[also build test WARNING on v4.17 next-20180612]
[if your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, please drop us a note to help improve the system]

url: https://github.com/0day-ci/linux/commits/Chengguang-Xu/x86-remove-redundant-check-for-kmem_cache_create/20180612-182134
config: i386-randconfig-a1-201823 (attached as .config)
compiler: gcc-4.9 (Debian 4.9.4-2) 4.9.4
reproduce:
# save the attached .config to linux build tree
make ARCH=i386

All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):

In file included from include/linux/printk.h:5:0,
from include/linux/kernel.h:13,
from include/asm-generic/bug.h:15,
from arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h:81,
from include/linux/bug.h:4,
from include/linux/mmdebug.h:4,
from include/linux/mm.h:8,
from arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:1:
>> arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:327:15: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type
core_initcall(pgd_cache_init);
^
include/linux/init.h:166:58: note: in definition of macro '__define_initcall'
__attribute__((__section__(".initcall" #id ".init"))) = fn;
^
arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c:327:1: note: in expansion of macro 'core_initcall'
core_initcall(pgd_cache_init);
^

vim +327 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c

1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 308
d524db50 Chengguang Xu 2018-06-12 309 static void __init pgd_cache_init(void)
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 310 {
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 311 /*
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 312 * When PAE kernel is running as a Xen domain, it does not use
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 313 * shared kernel pmd. And this requires a whole page for pgd.
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 314 */
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 315 if (!SHARED_KERNEL_PMD)
d524db50 Chengguang Xu 2018-06-12 316 return;
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 317
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 318 /*
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 319 * when PAE kernel is not running as a Xen domain, it uses
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 320 * shared kernel pmd. Shared kernel pmd does not require a whole
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 321 * page for pgd. We are able to just allocate a 32-byte for pgd.
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 322 * During boot time, we create a 32-byte slab for pgd table allocation.
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 323 */
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 324 pgd_cache = kmem_cache_create("pgd_cache", PGD_SIZE, PGD_ALIGN,
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 325 SLAB_PANIC, NULL);
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 326 }
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 @327 core_initcall(pgd_cache_init);
1db491f7 Fenghua Yu 2015-01-15 328

:::::: The code at line 327 was first introduced by commit
:::::: 1db491f77b6ed0f32f1d4a3ac40a5be9524f1914 x86/mm: Reduce PAE-mode per task pgd allocation overhead from 4K to 32 bytes

:::::: TO: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com>
:::::: CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>

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