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    arm64/mm: automatically fold contpte mappings · f0c22649
    Ryan Roberts authored
    There are situations where a change to a single PTE could cause the
    contpte block in which it resides to become foldable (i.e.  could be
    repainted with the contiguous bit).  Such situations arise, for example,
    when user space temporarily changes protections, via mprotect, for
    individual pages, such can be the case for certain garbage collectors.
    
    We would like to detect when such a PTE change occurs.  However this can
    be expensive due to the amount of checking required.  Therefore only
    perform the checks when an indiviual PTE is modified via mprotect
    (ptep_modify_prot_commit() -> set_pte_at() -> set_ptes(nr=1)) and only
    when we are setting the final PTE in a contpte-aligned block.
    
    Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-19-ryan.roberts@arm.comSigned-off-by: default avatarRyan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com>
    Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com>
    Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
    Cc: Barry Song <21cnbao@gmail.com>
    Cc: Borislav Petkov (AMD) <bp@alien8.de>
    Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
    Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
    Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
    Cc: James Morse <james.morse@arm.com>
    Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
    Cc: Kefeng Wang <wangkefeng.wang@huawei.com>
    Cc: Marc Zyngier <maz@kernel.org>
    Cc: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
    Cc: Yang Shi <shy828301@gmail.com>
    Cc: Zi Yan <ziy@nvidia.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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