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Commit 4645b9fe authored by Jérôme Glisse's avatar Jérôme Glisse Committed by Linus Torvalds
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mm/mmu_notifier: avoid call to invalidate_range() in range_end()

This is an optimization patch that only affect mmu_notifier users which
rely on the invalidate_range() callback.  This patch avoids calling that
callback twice in a row from inside __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end

Existing pattern (before this patch):
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()
        pte/pmd/pud_clear_flush_notify()
            mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end()
        mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()

New pattern (after this patch):
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_start()
        pte/pmd/pud_clear_flush_notify()
            mmu_notifier_invalidate_range()
    mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_only_end()

We call the invalidate_range callback after clearing the page table
under the page table lock and we skip the call to invalidate_range
inside the __mmu_notifier_invalidate_range_end() function.

Idea from Andrea Arcangeli

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171017031003.7481-3-jglisse@redhat.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJérôme Glisse <jglisse@redhat.com>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Joerg Roedel <jroedel@suse.de>
Cc: Suravee Suthikulpanit <suravee.suthikulpanit@amd.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Alistair Popple <alistair@popple.id.au>
Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Cc: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@au1.ibm.com>
Cc: Nadav Amit <nadav.amit@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
parent 0f10851e
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