Re: [PATCH] arm64/mm: Drop redundant addr increment in set_huge_pte_at()
From: Anshuman Khandual <hidden>
Date: 2025-07-15 06:36:41
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On 15/07/25 11:28 AM, Dev Jain wrote:
On 15/07/25 10:09 am, Anshuman Khandual wrote:quoted
The 'addr' need not be incremented while operating on single entry basis as BBM is not required for such updates."while operating on a single entry basis" should be replaced with "when transitioning from invalid to valid pte"; BBM is required for single entry updates when the cont bit is set, as described in the comment immediately below. In fact, let us not even mention BBM at all - the reasoning is that the code is written in a way that, the loop incrementing addr, immediately has a return after it, and it does not actually use the addr, so let's drop the increment. It is not immediately obvious from the commit description that the addr is passed ultimately to flush_tlb_range friends which is involved in BBM.
Agreed, the mention about BBM can be dropped as it is not really relevant. Rather 'addr' variable being unused in the conditional block, which exits right after is the real reason. I will update the commit description as required.
Reviewed-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain@arm.com>quoted
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <redacted> --- arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c index 0c8737f4f2ce..1d90a7e75333 100644 --- a/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/hugetlbpage.c@@ -225,7 +225,7 @@ void set_huge_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,ncontig = num_contig_ptes(sz, &pgsize); if (!pte_present(pte)) { - for (i = 0; i < ncontig; i++, ptep++, addr += pgsize) + for (i = 0; i < ncontig; i++, ptep++) __set_ptes_anysz(mm, ptep, pte, 1, pgsize); return; }