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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jianyong Wu <Jianyong.Wu@arm.com>,
	Anshuman Khandual <Anshuman.Khandual@arm.com>,
	"will@kernel.org" <will@kernel.org>,
	"akpm@linux-foundation.org" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"ardb@kernel.org" <ardb@kernel.org>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	 "gshan@redhat.com" <gshan@redhat.com>,
	Justin He <Justin.He@arm.com>, nd <nd@arm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] arm64/mm: avoid fixmap race condition when create pud mapping
Date: Mon, 13 Dec 2021 09:57:08 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YbcY9Kjd2ZzDxOZu@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3366ba9f-5993-1c52-de0c-53e618f20cd8@redhat.com>

On Mon, Dec 13, 2021 at 08:37:04AM +0100, David Hildenbrand wrote:
> On 13.12.21 08:27, Jianyong Wu wrote:
> >>> @@ -359,6 +365,7 @@ static void alloc_init_pud(pgd_t *pgdp, unsigned long addr, unsigned long end,
> >>>  	} while (pudp++, addr = next, addr != end);
> >>>
> >>>  	pud_clear_fixmap();
> >>> +	spin_unlock(&fixmap_lock);
> >>>  }
> >>>
> >>>  static void __create_pgd_mapping(pgd_t *pgdir, phys_addr_t phys,
> >>>
> >>
> >> As the race could only happen with memory hotplug being enabled, could
> >> not we wrap this around with CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG, just to narrow
> >> its scope possibly speed up other non-hotplug cases ?

Assuming you can quantify the speed-up...

> > I think it's better.
> 
> We better avoid using ifdef if not really necessary, it just uglifies
> the code. We could add
> 
> if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG))
> 	...
> 
> But should we really try to micto-optimize this code and make it harder
> to read for the purpose of an unproven performance gain? (if there is no
> contention, we'll most probably not even recognize that we're taking a lock)

I agree, I don't see the point of this optimisation.

-- 
Catalin

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  reply	other threads:[~2021-12-13 10:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-12-10  9:54 [PATCH v2] arm64/mm: avoid fixmap race condition when create pud mapping Jianyong Wu
2021-12-10 11:22 ` Catalin Marinas
2021-12-13  5:24   ` Jianyong Wu
2021-12-13  6:56 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-12-13  7:27   ` Jianyong Wu
2021-12-13  7:37     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-13  9:57       ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2021-12-13 10:16 ` Anshuman Khandual
2021-12-13 10:35   ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-12-13 13:45     ` Will Deacon
2021-12-13 14:01       ` Ard Biesheuvel
2021-12-13 16:42 ` Will Deacon
2021-12-15 14:13 ` Qian Cai
2021-12-15 16:02   ` Catalin Marinas
2021-12-15 16:04     ` David Hildenbrand
2021-12-16  3:00       ` Jianyong Wu

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