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SubjectRe: [PATCH v7 01/12] mm: x86, arm64: add arch_has_hw_pte_young()
On Tue, Feb 08, 2022 at 01:18:51AM -0700, Yu Zhao wrote:
> Some architectures automatically set the accessed bit in PTEs, e.g.,
> x86 and arm64 v8.2. On architectures that don't have this capability,
> clearing the accessed bit in a PTE usually triggers a page fault
> following the TLB miss of this PTE (to emulate the accessed bit).
>
> Being aware of this capability can help make better decisions, e.g.,
> whether to spread the work out over a period of time to reduce bursty
> page faults when trying to clear the accessed bit in many PTEs.
>
> Note that theoretically this capability can be unreliable, e.g.,
> hotplugged CPUs might be different from builtin ones. Therefore it
> shouldn't be used in architecture-independent code that involves
> correctness, e.g., to determine whether TLB flushes are required (in
> combination with the accessed bit).
>
> Signed-off-by: Yu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
> Acked-by: Brian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
> Acked-by: Jan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
> Acked-by: Oleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
> Acked-by: Steven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
> Acked-by: Suleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
> Tested-by: Daniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
> Tested-by: Donald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
> Tested-by: Holger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
> Tested-by: Konstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
> Tested-by: Shuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
> Tested-by: Sofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
> ---
> arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h | 14 ++------------
> arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 6 +++---
> include/linux/pgtable.h | 13 +++++++++++++
> mm/memory.c | 14 +-------------
> 4 files changed, 19 insertions(+), 28 deletions(-)

For the arm64 bit:

Acked-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

Will

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