[PATCH V2 02/14] arm64/mm: Route all pgtable reads via ptval_get()

[David Hildenbrand (Arm)]

On 9/7/26 05:50, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> Define arm64 platform specific implementations for new pxdp_get() helpers.
> These resolve into READ_ONCE(), thus ensuring required single copy atomic
> semantics for the page table entry reads.
> 
> In future this infrastructure can be used for D128 to maintain single copy
> atomicity semantics with inline asm blocks.
> 
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will at kernel.org>
> Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts at arm.com>
> Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland at arm.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
> Cc: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual at arm.com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 38 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  1 file changed, 32 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index 83087b70f192..f764132ca34e 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -84,6 +84,32 @@ static inline void arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(void)
>  	arch_flush_lazy_mmu_mode();
>  }
>  
> +#define ptval_get(x)		READ_ONCE(x)
> +
> +#define pmdp_get pmdp_get
> +static inline pmd_t pmdp_get(pmd_t *pmdp)
> +{
> +	return ptval_get(*pmdp);
> +}
Ah, one thing: you could pass a const pointer to all these read helpers.

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Cheers,

David