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When core code iterates over a range of ptes and calls ptep_get() for each of them, if the range happens to cover contpte mappings, the number of pte reads becomes amplified by a factor of the number of PTEs in a contpte block. This is because for each call to ptep_get(), the implementation must read all of the ptes in the contpte block to which it belongs to gather the access and dirty bits. This causes a hotspot for fork(), as well as operations that unmap memory such as munmap(), exit and madvise(MADV_DONTNEED). Fortunately we can fix this by implementing pte_batch_hint() which allows their iterators to skip getting the contpte tail ptes when gathering the batch of ptes to operate on. This results in the number of PTE reads returning to 1 per pte. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-17-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Acked-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com> Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com> Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com> Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org> Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com> Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.