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minmax: avoid overly complicated constant expressions in VM code
[ Upstream commit 3a7e02c ] The minmax infrastructure is overkill for simple constants, and can cause huge expansions because those simple constants are then used by other things. For example, 'pageblock_order' is a core VM constant, but because it was implemented using 'min_t()' and all the type-checking that involves, it actually expanded to something like 2.5kB of preprocessor noise. And when that simple constant was then used inside other expansions: #define pageblock_nr_pages (1UL << pageblock_order) #define pageblock_start_pfn(pfn) ALIGN_DOWN((pfn), pageblock_nr_pages) and we then use that inside a 'max()' macro: case ISOLATE_SUCCESS: update_cached = false; last_migrated_pfn = max(cc->zone->zone_start_pfn, pageblock_start_pfn(cc->migrate_pfn - 1)); the end result was that one statement expanding to 253kB in size. There are probably other cases of this, but this one case certainly stood out. I've added 'MIN_T()' and 'MAX_T()' macros for this kind of "core simple constant with specific type" use. These macros skip the type checking, and as such need to be very sparingly used only for obvious cases that have active issues like this. Reported-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/36aa2cad-1db1-4abf-8dd2-fb20484aabc3@lucifer.local/ Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@aculab.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Eliav Farber <farbere@amazon.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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include/linux/minmax.h

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@@ -270,4 +270,11 @@ static inline bool in_range32(u32 val, u32 start, u32 len)
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#define swap(a, b) \
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do { typeof(a) __tmp = (a); (a) = (b); (b) = __tmp; } while (0)
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/*
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* Use these carefully: no type checking, and uses the arguments
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* multiple times. Use for obvious constants only.
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*/
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#define MIN_T(type,a,b) __cmp(min,(type)(a),(type)(b))
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#define MAX_T(type,a,b) __cmp(max,(type)(a),(type)(b))
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#endif /* _LINUX_MINMAX_H */

include/linux/pageblock-flags.h

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* Huge pages are a constant size, but don't exceed the maximum allocation
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* granularity.
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#define pageblock_order min_t(unsigned int, HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER, MAX_ORDER)
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#define pageblock_order MIN_T(unsigned int, HUGETLB_PAGE_ORDER, MAX_ORDER)
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#endif /* CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE_SIZE_VARIABLE */
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