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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7cff02d6-d3ce-4315-b667-34911fc6f321@kernel.org> On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 07:29:38PM +0200, David Hildenbrand (Arm) wrote: > On 7/14/26 18:51, Yeoreum Yun wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 05:08:24PM +0100, Yeoreum Yun wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 14, 2026 at 07:35:19AM -0700, Dave Hansen wrote: > >>> > >>> This is indeed an improvement and a step in the right direction! Thanks > >>> for looking at this. > >>> > >>> But one of my test for whether it's good x86 code is whether there's any > >>> actually x86-specific logic in it. Isn't this basically a translation > >>> between the integer level number and whether it is folded? > >>> > >>> That seems like a common helper that more than one arch could use. Could > >>> this be stuck in a helper so that all arch/x86 has to do is: > >>> > >>> if (mm_pt_level_folded(mm, level)) > >>> return; > >> > >> Yes. at least the level semantic in ptdump (pgd is level 0, > >> p4d is level 1, ...) is same to all archs where use ptdump. > >> So It seems reasonable to add this common helper in ptdump.c > >> > > > > Furthermore, the effective_prot() need to require to identify whether > > it's the first pgtable to prevent the inheriting from dummy value. > > So I think it seems to make a ptdump_pt_level_first() like: > > > > diff --git a/mm/ptdump.c b/mm/ptdump.c > > index 973020000096c..2ec5700e4be5e 100644 > > --- a/mm/ptdump.c > > +++ b/mm/ptdump.c > > @@ -190,6 +190,23 @@ void ptdump_walk_pgd(struct ptdump_state *st, struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd) > > st->note_page_flush(st); > > } > > > > +bool pdtump_pt_level_first(struct mm_struct *mm, int level) > > +{ > > + if (!mm || level > CONFIG_PGTABLE_LEVELS) > > + return false; > > Do we actually ever get !mm ? Yes. for the case of s390 use mm anyway for folded check. > > -- > Cheers, > > David -- Sincerely, Yeoreum Yun