[PATCH v2 0/5] Rework the pte handling for hardware AF/DBM

Will Deacon will.deacon at arm.com
Fri Aug 18 10:29:36 PDT 2017


On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 06:25:57PM +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> That's the second version of the pte accessors reworking series (first
> version at [1]).
> 
> Changes since v1:
> 
> - READ_ONCE moved out of the cmpxchg loops since cmpxchg already returns
>   the old value (probably more efficient with LSE atomics)
> 
> - The first patch from the first series has been merged upstream (cc
>   stable)
> 
> - Kconfig entry kept just to disable the hardware feature but the code
>   paths all assume hardware AF/DBM
> 
> - PAGE_COPY(_EXEC) removed as they just duplicate PAGE_READONLY(_EXEC)
> 
> I kept the review-by tags in place as the logic is unchanged but feel
> free to look at the patches again.

Thanks, this looks good to me now:

Reviewed-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>

Will



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