Thread (3 messages) 3 messages, 2 authors, 2025-07-15

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;
      }
  
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