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    Subject[PATCH 0/2] Create 'old' ptes for faultaround mappings on arm64 with hardware access flag
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    Hi folks,

    This series allows architectures to opt-in at runtime for faultaround
    mappings to be created as 'old' instead of 'young'. Although there have
    been previous attempts at this, they failed either because the decision
    was deferred to userspace [1] or because it was done unconditionally and
    shown to regress benchmarks for particular architectures [2].

    Since this patch has demonstrated considerable benefits for arm64-based
    Android devices with hardware access flag capabilities, patch two enables
    this functionality there.

    Cheers,

    Will

    [1] https://www.spinics.net/lists/linux-mm/msg143831.html
    [2] 315d09bf30c2 ("Revert "mm: make faultaround produce old ptes"")

    Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
    Cc: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
    Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Vinayak Menon <vinmenon@codeaurora.org>
    Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: <kernel-team@android.com>

    --->8

    Will Deacon (2):
    mm: Allow architectures to request 'old' entries when prefaulting
    arm64: mm: Implement arch_wants_old_faultaround_pte()

    arch/arm64/include/asm/cpufeature.h | 12 +++++++++++
    arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 8 +++++++-
    include/linux/mm.h | 5 ++++-
    mm/memory.c | 31 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
    4 files changed, 51 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

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    2.29.2.576.ga3fc446d84-goog

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