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From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>,
	Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>,
	Yang Shi <yang@os.amperecomputing.com>,
	Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>, Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>,
	scott@os.amperecomputing.com, cl@gentwo.org
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: [PATCH v7 6/6] arm64: mm: Optimize linear_map_split_to_ptes()
Date: Fri, 29 Aug 2025 12:52:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20250829115250.2395585-7-ryan.roberts@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20250829115250.2395585-1-ryan.roberts@arm.com>

When splitting kernel leaf mappings, either via
split_kernel_leaf_mapping_locked() or linear_map_split_to_ptes(),
previously a leaf mapping was always split to the next size down. e.g.
pud -> contpmd -> pmd -> contpte -> pte. But for
linear_map_split_to_ptes() we can avoid the contpmd and contpte states
because we know we want to split all the way down to ptes.

This avoids visiting all the ptes in a table if it was created by
splitting a pmd, which is noticible on systems with a lot of memory.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 26 ++++++++++++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 18 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 6bd0b065bd97..8e45cd08bf3a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -550,7 +550,7 @@ static void split_contpte(pte_t *ptep)
 		__set_pte(ptep, pte_mknoncont(__ptep_get(ptep)));
 }
 
-static int split_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd, gfp_t gfp)
+static int split_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd, gfp_t gfp, bool to_cont)
 {
 	pmdval_t tableprot = PMD_TYPE_TABLE | PMD_TABLE_UXN | PMD_TABLE_AF;
 	unsigned long pfn = pmd_pfn(pmd);
@@ -568,7 +568,9 @@ static int split_pmd(pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd, gfp_t gfp)
 		tableprot |= PMD_TABLE_PXN;
 
 	prot = __pgprot((pgprot_val(prot) & ~PTE_TYPE_MASK) | PTE_TYPE_PAGE);
-	prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) | PTE_CONT);
+	prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) & ~PTE_CONT);
+	if (to_cont)
+		prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) | PTE_CONT);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PTE; i++, ptep++, pfn++)
 		__set_pte(ptep, pfn_pte(pfn, prot));
@@ -592,7 +594,7 @@ static void split_contpmd(pmd_t *pmdp)
 		set_pmd(pmdp, pmd_mknoncont(pmdp_get(pmdp)));
 }
 
-static int split_pud(pud_t *pudp, pud_t pud, gfp_t gfp)
+static int split_pud(pud_t *pudp, pud_t pud, gfp_t gfp, bool to_cont)
 {
 	pudval_t tableprot = PUD_TYPE_TABLE | PUD_TABLE_UXN | PUD_TABLE_AF;
 	unsigned int step = PMD_SIZE >> PAGE_SHIFT;
@@ -611,7 +613,9 @@ static int split_pud(pud_t *pudp, pud_t pud, gfp_t gfp)
 		tableprot |= PUD_TABLE_PXN;
 
 	prot = __pgprot((pgprot_val(prot) & ~PMD_TYPE_MASK) | PMD_TYPE_SECT);
-	prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) | PTE_CONT);
+	prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) & ~PTE_CONT);
+	if (to_cont)
+		prot = __pgprot(pgprot_val(prot) | PTE_CONT);
 
 	for (i = 0; i < PTRS_PER_PMD; i++, pmdp++, pfn += step)
 		set_pmd(pmdp, pfn_pmd(pfn, prot));
@@ -669,7 +673,7 @@ static int split_kernel_leaf_mapping_locked(unsigned long addr)
 	if (!pud_present(pud))
 		goto out;
 	if (pud_leaf(pud)) {
-		ret = split_pud(pudp, pud, GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL);
+		ret = split_pud(pudp, pud, GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL, true);
 		if (ret)
 			goto out;
 	}
@@ -694,7 +698,7 @@ static int split_kernel_leaf_mapping_locked(unsigned long addr)
 		 */
 		if (ALIGN_DOWN(addr, PMD_SIZE) == addr)
 			goto out;
-		ret = split_pmd(pmdp, pmd, GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL);
+		ret = split_pmd(pmdp, pmd, GFP_PGTABLE_KERNEL, true);
 		if (ret)
 			goto out;
 	}
@@ -771,7 +775,7 @@ static int __init split_to_ptes_pud_entry(pud_t *pudp, unsigned long addr,
 	int ret = 0;
 
 	if (pud_leaf(pud))
-		ret = split_pud(pudp, pud, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		ret = split_pud(pudp, pud, GFP_ATOMIC, false);
 
 	return ret;
 }
@@ -786,7 +790,13 @@ static int __init split_to_ptes_pmd_entry(pmd_t *pmdp, unsigned long addr,
 	if (pmd_leaf(pmd)) {
 		if (pmd_cont(pmd))
 			split_contpmd(pmdp);
-		ret = split_pmd(pmdp, pmd, GFP_ATOMIC);
+		ret = split_pmd(pmdp, pmd, GFP_ATOMIC, false);
+
+		/*
+		 * We have split the pmd directly to ptes so there is no need to
+		 * visit each pte to check if they are contpte.
+		 */
+		walk->action = ACTION_CONTINUE;
 	}
 
 	return ret;
-- 
2.43.0


  parent reply	other threads:[~2025-08-29 11:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-08-29 11:52 [PATCH v7 0/6] arm64: support FEAT_BBM level 2 and large block mapping when rodata=full Ryan Roberts
2025-08-29 11:52 ` [PATCH v7 1/6] arm64: Enable permission change on arm64 kernel block mappings Ryan Roberts
2025-08-29 11:52 ` [PATCH v7 2/6] arm64: cpufeature: add AmpereOne to BBML2 allow list Ryan Roberts
2025-08-29 22:08   ` Yang Shi
2025-09-03 17:24   ` Catalin Marinas
2025-09-04  0:49     ` Yang Shi
2025-08-29 11:52 ` [PATCH v7 3/6] arm64: mm: support large block mapping when rodata=full Ryan Roberts
2025-09-03 19:15   ` Catalin Marinas
2025-09-04  0:52     ` Yang Shi
2025-08-29 11:52 ` [PATCH v7 4/6] arm64: mm: Optimize split_kernel_leaf_mapping() Ryan Roberts
2025-08-29 22:11   ` Yang Shi
2025-09-03 19:20   ` Catalin Marinas
2025-08-29 11:52 ` [PATCH v7 5/6] arm64: mm: split linear mapping if BBML2 unsupported on secondary CPUs Ryan Roberts
2025-08-29 11:52 ` Ryan Roberts [this message]
2025-08-29 22:27   ` [PATCH v7 6/6] arm64: mm: Optimize linear_map_split_to_ptes() Yang Shi
2025-09-01  5:04 ` [PATCH v7 0/6] arm64: support FEAT_BBM level 2 and large block mapping when rodata=full Dev Jain
2025-09-01  8:03   ` Ryan Roberts
2025-09-03  0:21     ` Yang Shi
2025-09-03  0:50       ` Yang Shi

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