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[PATCH v1 08/16] arm64/mm: Hoist barriers out of ___set_ptes() loop

From: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Date: 2025-02-05 15:10:50
Also in: linux-mm, lkml
Subsystem: arm64 port (aarch64 architecture), the rest · Maintainers: Catalin Marinas, Will Deacon, Linus Torvalds

___set_ptes() previously called __set_pte() for each PTE in the range,
which would conditionally issue a DSB and ISB to make the new PTE value
immediately visible to the table walker if the new PTE was valid and for
kernel space.

We can do better than this; let's hoist those barriers out of the loop
so that they are only issued once at the end of the loop. We then reduce
the cost by the number of PTEs in the range.

Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 14 ++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 3b55d9a15f05..1d428e9c0e5a 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -317,10 +317,8 @@ static inline void __set_pte_nosync(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
 	WRITE_ONCE(*ptep, pte);
 }
 
-static inline void __set_pte(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
+static inline void __set_pte_complete(pte_t pte)
 {
-	__set_pte_nosync(ptep, pte);
-
 	/*
 	 * Only if the new pte is valid and kernel, otherwise TLB maintenance
 	 * or update_mmu_cache() have the necessary barriers.
@@ -331,6 +329,12 @@ static inline void __set_pte(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
 	}
 }
 
+static inline void __set_pte(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
+{
+	__set_pte_nosync(ptep, pte);
+	__set_pte_complete(pte);
+}
+
 static inline pte_t __ptep_get(pte_t *ptep)
 {
 	return READ_ONCE(*ptep);
@@ -647,12 +651,14 @@ static inline void ___set_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte,
 
 	for (;;) {
 		__check_safe_pte_update(mm, ptep, pte);
-		__set_pte(ptep, pte);
+		__set_pte_nosync(ptep, pte);
 		if (--nr == 0)
 			break;
 		ptep++;
 		pte = pte_advance_pfn(pte, stride);
 	}
+
+	__set_pte_complete(pte);
 }
 
 static inline void __set_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm,
-- 
2.43.0

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