[PATCH v2 2/3] arm64: mm: Optimize range_split_to_ptes()
Ryan Roberts
ryan.roberts at arm.com
Thu Nov 6 08:09:42 PST 2025
Enter lazy_mmu mode while splitting a range of memory to pte mappings.
This causes barriers, which would otherwise be emitted after every pte
(and pmd/pud) write, to be deferred until exiting lazy_mmu mode.
For large systems, this is expected to significantly speed up fallback
to pte-mapping the linear map for the case where the boot CPU has
BBML2_NOABORT, but secondary CPUs do not. I haven't directly measured
it, but this is equivalent to commit 1fcb7cea8a5f ("arm64: mm: Batch dsb
and isb when populating pgtables").
Note that for the path from arch_kfence_init_pool(), we may sleep while
allocating memory inside the lazy_mmu mode. Sleeping is not allowed by
generic code inside lazy_mmu, but we know that the arm64 implementation
is sleep-safe. So this is ok and follows the same pattern already used
by split_kernel_leaf_mapping().
Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
---
arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c | 8 +++++++-
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
index a364ac2c9c61..652bb8c14035 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/mmu.c
@@ -832,8 +832,14 @@ static const struct mm_walk_ops split_to_ptes_ops = {
static int range_split_to_ptes(unsigned long start, unsigned long end, gfp_t gfp)
{
- return walk_kernel_page_table_range_lockless(start, end,
+ int ret;
+
+ arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode();
+ ret = walk_kernel_page_table_range_lockless(start, end,
&split_to_ptes_ops, NULL, &gfp);
+ arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode();
+
+ return ret;
}
static bool linear_map_requires_bbml2 __initdata;
--
2.43.0
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