From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org Received: from bombadil.infradead.org (bombadil.infradead.org [198.137.202.133]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6488DC48260 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:35:32 +0000 (UTC) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=lists.infradead.org; s=bombadil.20210309; h=Sender: Content-Transfer-Encoding:Content-Type:List-Subscribe:List-Help:List-Post: List-Archive:List-Unsubscribe:List-Id:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:References: Message-ID:Subject:Cc:To:From:Date:Reply-To:Content-ID:Content-Description: Resent-Date:Resent-From:Resent-Sender:Resent-To:Resent-Cc:Resent-Message-ID: List-Owner; bh=pUopU6xbaWk30WrtdSuC8pYX677QvOaD+I2C9QVPtNs=; b=remt/k0dIKkBSB BOuy2i71r/aIwYmw8Bj7hyUYu/HeZDBaZQWlsFQbDuXh3sHKng0RairnzJPF+tWIk9Z07LgVviwIa tILsfGD0u/X+MLLfp2hoYcrbnjbLNdakluTzvfc1/osw6jz4IRi/f1dWH06xYLMZ0IMJG88EogDuM 6hKfqL0ZGxizhVRLuIVBryHjqg5u9nwugtXHgROlsRmzbwE1pDbB9Tv5/B7/ZHTwaxx1d1Hz+5sqt vuZt2qM1GiCMm0qCWHB8CSleJZs/KrGcOPxscaLuXm8ejmPwF8J7LOUFG2py7v+ae5M+NEWlhFR7l BD61lu/AEWg+0cUIg5sw==; Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=bombadil.infradead.org) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.97.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1raxR4-00000002JMo-1iVl; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:35:22 +0000 Received: from sin.source.kernel.org ([2604:1380:40e1:4800::1]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.97.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1raxQv-00000002JGD-0GXp for linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:35:14 +0000 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (transwarp.subspace.kernel.org [100.75.92.58]) by sin.source.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D6E5CE2B32; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:35:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 26F79C43394; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:35:05 +0000 (UTC) Date: Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:35:03 +0000 From: Catalin Marinas To: Ryan Roberts Cc: Will Deacon , Ard Biesheuvel , Marc Zyngier , James Morse , Andrey Ryabinin , Andrew Morton , Matthew Wilcox , Mark Rutland , David Hildenbrand , Kefeng Wang , John Hubbard , Zi Yan , Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>, Alistair Popple , Yang Shi , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Borislav Petkov , Dave Hansen , "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, x86@kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 18/18] arm64/mm: Automatically fold contpte mappings Message-ID: References: <20240215103205.2607016-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com> <20240215103205.2607016-19-ryan.roberts@arm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20240215103205.2607016-19-ryan.roberts@arm.com> X-CRM114-Version: 20100106-BlameMichelson ( TRE 0.8.0 (BSD) ) MR-646709E3 X-CRM114-CacheID: sfid-20240216_043513_354732_ACF33A8F X-CRM114-Status: GOOD ( 14.41 ) X-BeenThere: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.34 Precedence: list List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=archiver.kernel.org@lists.infradead.org On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:32:05AM +0000, Ryan Roberts wrote: > There are situations where a change to a single PTE could cause the > contpte block in which it resides to become foldable (i.e. could be > repainted with the contiguous bit). Such situations arise, for example, > when user space temporarily changes protections, via mprotect, for > individual pages, such can be the case for certain garbage collectors. > > We would like to detect when such a PTE change occurs. However this can > be expensive due to the amount of checking required. Therefore only > perform the checks when an indiviual PTE is modified via mprotect > (ptep_modify_prot_commit() -> set_pte_at() -> set_ptes(nr=1)) and only > when we are setting the final PTE in a contpte-aligned block. > > Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts Acked-by: Catalin Marinas _______________________________________________ linux-arm-kernel mailing list linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-arm-kernel