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 lists.ozlabs.org (lists.ozlabs.org [112.213.38.117]) (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 C8775C48260 for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 12:35:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from boromir.ozlabs.org (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4Tbrxg3JfRz3vmw for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:35:35 +1100 (AEDT) Authentication-Results: lists.ozlabs.org; spf=pass (sender SPF authorized) smtp.mailfrom=kernel.org (client-ip=2604:1380:40e1:4800::1; helo=sin.source.kernel.org; envelope-from=cmarinas@kernel.org; receiver=lists.ozlabs.org) Received: from sin.source.kernel.org (sin.source.kernel.org [IPv6:2604:1380:40e1:4800::1]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 4TbrxD30NCz3dWd for ; Fri, 16 Feb 2024 23:35:12 +1100 (AEDT) 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 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-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20240215103205.2607016-19-ryan.roberts@arm.com> X-BeenThere: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Cc: Mark Rutland , Kefeng Wang , x86@kernel.org, David Hildenbrand , Yang Shi , Dave Hansen , linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrey Ryabinin , "H. Peter Anvin" , Will Deacon , Ard Biesheuvel , Marc Zyngier , Alistair Popple , Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>, Matthew Wilcox , Ingo Molnar , Zi Yan , John Hubbard , Borislav Petkov , Thomas Gleixner , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, James Morse , Andrew Morton , linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Errors-To: linuxppc-dev-bounces+linuxppc-dev=archiver.kernel.org@lists.ozlabs.org Sender: "Linuxppc-dev" 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