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Commit 9042599e authored by Lorenzo Stoakes's avatar Lorenzo Stoakes Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm: refactor do_fault_around()

Patch series "Refactor do_fault_around()"

Refactor do_fault_around() to avoid bitwise tricks and rather difficult to
follow logic.  Additionally, prefer fault_around_pages to
fault_around_bytes as the operations are performed at a base page
granularity.


This patch (of 2):

The existing logic is confusing and fails to abstract a number of bitwise
tricks.

Use ALIGN_DOWN() to perform alignment, pte_index() to obtain a PTE index
and represent the address range using PTE offsets, which naturally make it
clear that the operation is intended to occur within only a single PTE and
prevent spanning of more than one page table.

We rely on the fact that fault_around_bytes will always be page-aligned,
at least one page in size, a power of two and that it will not exceed
PAGE_SIZE * PTRS_PER_PTE in size (i.e.  the address space mapped by a
PTE).  These are all guaranteed by fault_around_bytes_set().

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/cover.1679089214.git.lstoakes@gmail.com
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/d125db1c3665a63b80cea29d56407825482e2262.1679089214.git.lstoakes@gmail.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarLorenzo Stoakes <lstoakes@gmail.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
parent 1c06b6a5
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