[PATCH v2 3/4] arm64/mm: Elide tlbi in contpte_convert() under BBML2
David Hildenbrand
david at redhat.com
Mon Mar 3 01:17:12 PST 2025
On 28.02.25 19:24, Mikołaj Lenczewski wrote:
> If we support bbml2 without conflict aborts, we can avoid the final
> flush and have hardware manage the tlb entries for us. Avoiding flushes
> is a win.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mikołaj Lenczewski <miko.lenczewski at arm.com>
> Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
> ---
> arch/arm64/mm/contpte.c | 3 ---
> 1 file changed, 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/contpte.c b/arch/arm64/mm/contpte.c
> index 145530f706a9..77ed03b30b72 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/mm/contpte.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/mm/contpte.c
> @@ -72,9 +72,6 @@ static void contpte_convert(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
> __flush_tlb_range(&vma, start_addr, addr, PAGE_SIZE, true, 3);
>
> __set_ptes(mm, start_addr, start_ptep, pte, CONT_PTES);
> -
> - if (system_supports_bbml2_noabort())
> - __flush_tlb_range(&vma, start_addr, addr, PAGE_SIZE, true, 3);
> }
>
> void __contpte_try_fold(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
What's the point of not squashing this into #2? :)
If this split was requested during earlier review, at least seeing patch
#2 on its own confused me.
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Cheers,
David / dhildenb
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