[PATCH v2 02/20] arm64/pgtable: Clear AF with LDCLR on supported systems

[James Houghton]

Replace the cmpxchg loop with atomic64_fetch_andnot_relaxed, which, on
systems with LSE atomics, should end up as LDCLR.

This is somewhat overdue. In recent versions of the architecture, if a
system supports FEAT_LSE, forward progress guarantees for exclusive
monitors and cmpxchg loops are relaxed.

Mechanically, I would love to write test_and_clear_bit_relaxed(), but no
such function exists (test_and_clear_bit() has full ordering, which is
also undesirable). Implementing test_and_clear_bit_relaxed() properly is
a pretty large change; use atomic64 instead, as pte_t contains a u64.

Signed-off-by: James Houghton <jthoughton at google.com>
---
 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 14 ++++----------
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 763c5a411d64..e47c3d010715 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -1252,17 +1252,11 @@ static inline void __pte_clear(struct mm_struct *mm,
 static inline bool __ptep_test_and_clear_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 		unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep)
 {
-	pte_t old_pte, pte;
+	atomic64_t *pteval = (atomic64_t *)&pte_val(*ptep);
+	s64 af_mask = PTE_AF;
 
-	pte = __ptep_get(ptep);
-	do {
-		old_pte = pte;
-		pte = pte_mkold(pte);
-		pte_val(pte) = cmpxchg_relaxed(&pte_val(*ptep),
-					       pte_val(old_pte), pte_val(pte));
-	} while (pte_val(pte) != pte_val(old_pte));
-
-	return pte_young(pte);
+	/* Atomically clear PTE_AF, checking that it was set before. */
+	return af_mask & atomic64_fetch_andnot_relaxed(af_mask, pteval);
 }
 
 static inline bool __ptep_clear_flush_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
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