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    arm64/mm: implement pte_batch_hint() · fb5451e5
    Ryan Roberts authored
    When core code iterates over a range of ptes and calls ptep_get() for each
    of them, if the range happens to cover contpte mappings, the number of pte
    reads becomes amplified by a factor of the number of PTEs in a contpte
    block.  This is because for each call to ptep_get(), the implementation
    must read all of the ptes in the contpte block to which it belongs to
    gather the access and dirty bits.
    
    This causes a hotspot for fork(), as well as operations that unmap memory
    such as munmap(), exit and madvise(MADV_DONTNEED).  Fortunately we can fix
    this by implementing pte_batch_hint() which allows their iterators to skip
    getting the contpte tail ptes when gathering the batch of ptes to operate
    on.  This results in the number of PTE reads returning to 1 per pte.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-17-ryan.roberts@arm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarRyan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Tested-by: default avatarJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
    Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
    Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
    Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
    Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
    Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
    Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
    Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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