[RFC V1 04/16] perf/events: Replace READ_ONCE() with standard pgtable accessors

Anshuman Khandual anshuman.khandual at arm.com
Mon Feb 23 21:11:41 PST 2026


Replace READ_ONCE() with standard page table accessors i.e pxdp_get() which
anyways default into READ_ONCE() in cases where platform do not override.

Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo at redhat.com>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme at kernel.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
Cc: linux-perf-users at vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
---
 kernel/events/core.c | 6 +++---
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/events/core.c b/kernel/events/core.c
index ac70d68217b6..4ee151cd2c6d 100644
--- a/kernel/events/core.c
+++ b/kernel/events/core.c
@@ -8422,7 +8422,7 @@ static u64 perf_get_pgtable_size(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
 	pte_t *ptep, pte;
 
 	pgdp = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
-	pgd = READ_ONCE(*pgdp);
+	pgd = pgdp_get(pgdp);
 	if (pgd_none(pgd))
 		return 0;
 
@@ -8430,7 +8430,7 @@ static u64 perf_get_pgtable_size(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
 		return pgd_leaf_size(pgd);
 
 	p4dp = p4d_offset_lockless(pgdp, pgd, addr);
-	p4d = READ_ONCE(*p4dp);
+	p4d = p4dp_get(p4dp);
 	if (!p4d_present(p4d))
 		return 0;
 
@@ -8438,7 +8438,7 @@ static u64 perf_get_pgtable_size(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr)
 		return p4d_leaf_size(p4d);
 
 	pudp = pud_offset_lockless(p4dp, p4d, addr);
-	pud = READ_ONCE(*pudp);
+	pud = pudp_get(pudp);
 	if (!pud_present(pud))
 		return 0;
 
-- 
2.43.0




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