[PATCH v2 4/7] arm64: Add batched version of ptep_modify_prot_start

Dev Jain dev.jain at arm.com
Mon Apr 28 22:23:33 PDT 2025


Override the generic definition to use get_and_clear_full_ptes(), so that
we do a TLBI possibly only on the "contpte-edges" of the large PTE block,
instead of doing it for every contpte block, which happens for ptep_get_and_clear().

Signed-off-by: Dev Jain <dev.jain at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h |  5 +++++
 arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c              | 12 +++++++++---
 include/linux/pgtable.h          |  4 ++++
 mm/pgtable-generic.c             | 16 +++++++++++-----
 4 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 2a77f11b78d5..8872ea5f0642 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -1553,6 +1553,11 @@ extern void ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 				    unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
 				    pte_t old_pte, pte_t new_pte);
 
+#define modify_prot_start_ptes modify_prot_start_ptes
+extern pte_t modify_prot_start_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+				    unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
+				    unsigned int nr);
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_CONTPTE
 
 /*
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index 8fcf59ba39db..fe60be8774f4 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -1523,7 +1523,8 @@ static int __init prevent_bootmem_remove_init(void)
 early_initcall(prevent_bootmem_remove_init);
 #endif
 
-pte_t ptep_modify_prot_start(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
+pte_t modify_prot_start_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr,
+			     pte_t *ptep, unsigned int nr)
 {
 	if (alternative_has_cap_unlikely(ARM64_WORKAROUND_2645198)) {
 		/*
@@ -1532,9 +1533,14 @@ pte_t ptep_modify_prot_start(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pte
 		 * in cases where cpu is affected with errata #2645198.
 		 */
 		if (pte_user_exec(ptep_get(ptep)))
-			return ptep_clear_flush(vma, addr, ptep);
+			return clear_flush_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, nr);
 	}
-	return ptep_get_and_clear(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep);
+	return get_and_clear_full_ptes(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep, nr, 0);
+}
+
+pte_t ptep_modify_prot_start(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
+{
+	return modify_prot_start_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, 1);
 }
 
 void ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h
index ed287289335f..10cdb87ccecf 100644
--- a/include/linux/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h
@@ -828,6 +828,10 @@ extern pte_t ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			      pte_t *ptep);
 #endif
 
+extern pte_t clear_flush_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+			      unsigned long address,
+			      pte_t *ptep, unsigned int nr);
+
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_HUGE_CLEAR_FLUSH
 extern pmd_t pmdp_huge_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			      unsigned long address,
diff --git a/mm/pgtable-generic.c b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
index 5a882f2b10f9..e238f88c3cac 100644
--- a/mm/pgtable-generic.c
+++ b/mm/pgtable-generic.c
@@ -90,17 +90,23 @@ int ptep_clear_flush_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 }
 #endif
 
-#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_CLEAR_FLUSH
-pte_t ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
-		       pte_t *ptep)
+pte_t clear_flush_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+		       pte_t *ptep, unsigned int nr)
 {
 	struct mm_struct *mm = (vma)->vm_mm;
 	pte_t pte;
-	pte = ptep_get_and_clear(mm, address, ptep);
+	pte = get_and_clear_full_ptes(mm, address, ptep, nr, 0);
 	if (pte_accessible(mm, pte))
-		flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
+		flush_tlb_range(vma, address, address + nr * PAGE_SIZE);
 	return pte;
 }
+
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_CLEAR_FLUSH
+pte_t ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
+		       pte_t *ptep)
+{
+	return clear_flush_ptes(vma, address, ptep, 1);
+}
 #endif
 
 #ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
-- 
2.30.2




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