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Zack Rusin
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Mapping dirty helpers have, so far, been only used on X86, but a port of vmwgfx to ARM64 exposed a problem which results in a compilation error on ARM64 systems: mm/mapping_dirty_helpers.c: In function `wp_clean_pud_entry': mm/mapping_dirty_helpers.c:172:32: error: implicit declaration of function `pud_dirty'; did you mean `pmd_dirty'? [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration] This is due to the fact that mapping_dirty_helpers code assumes that pud_dirty is always defined, which is not the case for architectures that don't define CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD. ARM64 arch is a little inconsistent when it comes to PUD hugepage helpers, e.g. it defines pud_young but not pud_dirty but regardless of that the core kernel code shouldn't assume that any of the PUD hugepage helpers are available unless CONFIG_HAVE_ARCH_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE_PUD is defined. This prevents compilation errors whenever one of the drivers is ported to new architectures. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210409165151.694574-1-zackr@vmware.com Signed-off-by: Zack Rusin <zackr@vmware.com> Reviewed-by: Thomas Hellstrm (Intel) <thomas_os@shipmail.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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