[PATCH v2 0/5] Rework the pte handling for hardware AF/DBM
Catalin Marinas
catalin.marinas at arm.com
Mon Aug 21 03:41:49 PDT 2017
On Fri, Aug 18, 2017 at 06:29:36PM +0100, Will Deacon wrote:
> 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>
Thanks. I merged them into for-next/core.
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Catalin
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