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Patch series "Add folio_mk_pte()", v2.
Today if you have a folio and want to create a PTE that points to the
first page in it, you have to convert from a folio to a page. That's
zero-cost today but will be more expensive in the future.
I didn't want to add folio_mk_pte() to each architecture, and I didn't
want to lose any optimisations that architectures have from their own
implementation of mk_pte(). Fortunately, most architectures have by now
turned their mk_pte() into a fairly bland variant of pfn_pte(), but s390
has a special optimisation that needs to be moved into generic code in the
first patch.
At the end of this patch set, we have mk_pte() and folio_mk_pte() in mm.h
and each architecture only has to implement pfn_pte(). We've also
eliminated mk_huge_pte(), mk_huge_pmd() and mk_pmd().
This patch (of 11):
If the first access to a folio is a read that is then followed by a write,
we can save a page fault. s390 implemented this in their mk_pte() in
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