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x86/mm/cpa: Avoid the 4k pages check completely
authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Mon, 17 Sep 2018 14:29:17 +0000 (16:29 +0200)
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Thu, 27 Sep 2018 18:39:39 +0000 (20:39 +0200)
commit25517a7f75b33b4c1d6275fdbbd1e740036f36db
treed8f90973725db2e44b9ab90cf50d51f089040252
parent0bc828d248a42de0df3573b1aae56c76c49cbfcb
x86/mm/cpa: Avoid the 4k pages check completely

The extra loop which tries hard to preserve large pages in case of conflicts
with static protection regions turns out to be not preserving anything, at
least not in the experiments which have been conducted.

There might be corner cases in which the code would be able to preserve a
large page oaccsionally, but it's really not worth the extra code and the
cycles wasted in the common case.

Before:

 1G pages checked:                    2
 1G pages sameprot:                   0
 1G pages preserved:                  0
 2M pages checked:                  541
 2M pages sameprot:                 466
 2M pages preserved:                 47
 4K pages checked:                  514
 4K pages set-checked:             7668

After:
 1G pages checked:                    2
 1G pages sameprot:                   0
 1G pages preserved:                  0
 2M pages checked:                  538
 2M pages sameprot:                 466
 2M pages preserved:                 47
 4K pages set-checked:             7668

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Bin Yang <bin.yang@intel.com>
Cc: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180917143546.589642503@linutronix.de
arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c