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Commit 90292aca98 ("arm64: mm: use appropriate ctors for page tables")
introduced pgtable ctor calls in pgd_pgtable_alloc(). To identify the
pgtable level and call the appropriate ctor, the *_SHIFT value associated
with the pgtable level is used. However, those values do not
unambiguously identify a level, because if a given level is folded, the
*_SHIFT value will be equal to that of the upper level (e.g. PMD_SHIFT ==
PUD_SHIFT if PMD is folded).
As things stand, there is probably not much damaged done by calling the
ctor for a different level, and ARCH_ENABLE_SPLIT_PMD_PTLOCK is only
selected if PMD isn't folded (so we don't needlessly initialise
pmd_ptlock). Still, this is pretty confusing, and it would get even more
confusing when adding ctor calls for the remaining levels.
Let's simplify all this by using an enum to identify the pgtable level
instead; this way folding becomes irrelevant. This is inspired by one of
the m68k pgtable allocators (arch/m68k/include/asm/motorola_pgalloc.h).
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250408095222.860601-9-kevin.brodsky@arm.com
Signed-off-by: Kevin Brodsky <kevin.brodsky@arm.com>
Cc: Albert Ou <aou@eecs.berkeley.edu>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Linus Waleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
Cc: Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@linux.ibm.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Mike Rapoport <rppt@kernel.org>
Cc: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@dabbelt.com>
Cc: Paul Walmsley <paul.walmsley@sifive.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
Cc: Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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