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Qi Zheng 20f3ab2572 mm: pgtable: make ptep_clear() non-atomic 
In the generic ptep_get_and_clear() implementation, it is just a simple
combination of ptep_get() and pte_clear(). But for some architectures
(such as x86 and arm64, etc), the hardware will modify the A/D bits of the
page table entry, so the ptep_get_and_clear() needs to be overwritten
and implemented as an atomic operation to avoid contention, which has a
performance cost.

The commit d283d422c6 ("x86: mm: add x86_64 support for page table
check") adds the ptep_clear() on the x86, and makes it call
ptep_get_and_clear() when CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK is enabled. The page
table check feature does not actually care about the A/D bits, so only
ptep_get() + pte_clear() should be called. But considering that the page
table check is a debug option, this should not have much of an impact.

But then the commit de8c8e5283 ("mm: page_table_check: add hooks to
public helpers") changed ptep_clear() to unconditionally call
ptep_get_and_clear(), so that the CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK check can be
put into the page table check stubs (in include/linux/page_table_check.h).
This also cause performance loss to the kernel without
CONFIG_PAGE_TABLE_CHECK enabled, which doesn't make sense.

Currently ptep_clear() is only used in debug code and in khugepaged
collapse paths, which are fairly expensive. So the cost of an extra atomic
RMW operation does not matter. But this may be used for other paths in the
future. After all, for the present pte entry, we need to call ptep_clear()
instead of pte_clear() to ensure that PAGE_TABLE_CHECK works properly.

So to be more precise, just calling ptep_get() and pte_clear() in the
ptep_clear().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20241122073652.54030-1-zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com
Signed-off-by: Qi Zheng <zhengqi.arch@bytedance.com>
Reviewed-by: Pasha Tatashin <pasha.tatashin@soleen.com>
Reviewed-by: Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Muchun Song <muchun.song@linux.dev>
Acked-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@ziepe.ca>
Cc: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@oracle.com>
Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com>
Cc: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Cc: Tong Tiangen <tongtiangen@huawei.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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arch x86/execmem: fix ROX cache usage in Xen PV guests 2025-01-12 19:03:35 -08:00
block block: avoid to reuse hctx not removed from cpuhp callback list 2024-12-18 07:25:37 -07:00
certs sign-file,extract-cert: use pkcs11 provider for OPENSSL MAJOR >= 3 2024-09-20 19:52:48 +03:00
crypto crypto: rsassa-pkcs1 - Copy source data for SG list 2024-12-10 13:34:05 +08:00
Documentation 25 hotfixes. 16 are cc:stable. 18 are MM and 7 are non-MM. 2025-01-05 10:37:45 -08:00
drivers zram: fix potential UAF of zram table 2025-01-12 19:03:37 -08:00
fs fs/proc: fix softlockup in __read_vmcore (part 2) 2025-01-12 19:03:38 -08:00
include mm: pgtable: make ptep_clear() non-atomic 2025-01-13 22:40:35 -08:00
init - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko 2024-11-25 16:09:48 -08:00
io_uring io_uring/kbuf: use pre-committed buffer address for non-pollable file 2025-01-03 09:38:37 -07:00
ipc - The series "resource: A couple of cleanups" from Andy Shevchenko 2024-11-25 16:09:48 -08:00
kernel 25 hotfixes. 16 are cc:stable. 18 are MM and 7 are non-MM. 2025-01-05 10:37:45 -08:00
lib maple_tree: use mas_next_slot() directly 2025-01-13 22:40:30 -08:00
LICENSES LICENSES: add 0BSD license text 2024-09-01 20:43:24 -07:00
mm mm/hugetlb_cgroup: avoid useless return in void function 2025-01-13 22:40:34 -08:00
net Nothing major here. Over the last two weeks we gathered only around 2025-01-03 14:36:54 -08:00
rust workqueue: Fixes for v6.13-rc5 2025-01-03 15:03:56 -08:00
samples BPF fixes: 2024-12-06 15:07:48 -08:00
scripts scripts/decode_stacktrace.sh: fix decoding of lines with an additional info 2025-01-12 19:03:34 -08:00
security selinux/stable-6.13 PR 20241217 2024-12-18 12:10:15 -08:00
sound sound fixes for 6.13-rc6 2025-01-03 10:54:51 -08:00
tools selftests/mm: add a few missing gitignore files 2025-01-13 22:40:35 -08:00
usr kbuild: Drop support for include/asm-<arch> in headers_check.pl 2024-12-21 11:43:17 +09:00
virt VFIO updates for v6.13 2024-11-27 12:57:03 -08:00
.clang-format clang-format: Update with v6.11-rc1's for_each macro list 2024-08-02 13:20:31 +02:00
.clippy.toml rust: enable Clippy's check-private-items 2024-10-07 21:39:57 +02:00
.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.editorconfig .editorconfig: remove trim_trailing_whitespace option 2024-06-13 16:47:52 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore MAINTAINERS: Retire Ralf Baechle 2024-11-12 15:48:59 +01:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set diff driver for Rust source code files 2023-05-31 17:48:25 +02:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v6.13 2024-11-30 13:41:50 -08:00
.mailmap mailmap: modify the entry for Mathieu Othacehe 2024-12-30 17:59:08 -08:00
.rustfmt.toml rust: add .rustfmt.toml 2022-09-28 09:02:20 +02:00
COPYING COPYING: state that all contributions really are covered by this file 2020-02-10 13:32:20 -08:00
CREDITS cgroup: Changes for v6.13 2024-11-20 09:54:49 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v6.1 2022-10-10 12:00:45 -07:00
Kconfig kbuild: ensure full rebuild when the compiler is updated 2020-05-12 13:28:33 +09:00
MAINTAINERS 25 hotfixes. 16 are cc:stable. 18 are MM and 7 are non-MM. 2025-01-05 10:37:45 -08:00
Makefile Linux 6.13-rc6 2025-01-05 14:13:40 -08:00
README README: Fix spelling 2024-03-18 03:36:32 -06:00

README 

Linux kernel
============

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 reStructuredText 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.