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Matthew Wilcox (Oracle)
4e92030c05
Patch series "Add folio_mk_pte()", v2.
Today if you have a folio and want to create a PTE that points to the
first page in it, you have to convert from a folio to a page. That's
zero-cost today but will be more expensive in the future.
I didn't want to add folio_mk_pte() to each architecture, and I didn't
want to lose any optimisations that architectures have from their own
implementation of mk_pte(). Fortunately, most architectures have by now
turned their mk_pte() into a fairly bland variant of pfn_pte(), but s390
has a special optimisation that needs to be moved into generic code in the
first patch.
At the end of this patch set, we have mk_pte() and folio_mk_pte() in mm.h
and each architecture only has to implement pfn_pte(). We've also
eliminated mk_huge_pte(), mk_huge_pmd() and mk_pmd().
This patch (of 11):
If the first access to a folio is a read that is then followed by a write,
we can save a page fault. s390 implemented this in their mk_pte() in
commit abf09bed3c ("s390/mm: implement software dirty bits"), but other
architectures can also benefit from this.
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250402181709.2386022-1-willy@infradead.org
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20250402181709.2386022-2-willy@infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: Alexander Gordeev <agordeev@linux.ibm.com> # for s390
Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
Cc: Andreas Larsson <andreas@gaisler.com>
Cc: Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Cc: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Cc: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
Cc: <x86@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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