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Calls to change_protection_range() on THP can trigger, at least on x86, two TLB flushes for one page: one immediately, when pmdp_invalidate() is called by change_huge_pmd(), and then another one later (that can be batched) when change_protection_range() finishes. The first TLB flush is only necessary to prevent the dirty bit (and with a lesser importance the access bit) from changing while the PTE is modified. However, this is not necessary as the x86 CPUs set the dirty-bit atomically with an additional check that the PTE is (still) present. One caveat is Intel's Knights Landing that has a bug and does not do so. Leverage this behavior to eliminate the unnecessary TLB flush in change_huge_pmd(). Introduce a new arch specific pmdp_invalidate_ad() that only invalidates the access and dirty bit from further changes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220401180821.1986781-4-namit@vmware.com Signed-off-by: Nadav Amit <namit@vmware.com> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3@citrix.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com> Cc: Peter Xu <peterx@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org> Cc: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@gmail.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.