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Date: Wed, 17 Apr 2024 10:19:52 +0200
From: David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
To: Lance Yang <ioworker0@...il.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] mm/madvise: introduce clear_young_dirty_ptes()
batch helper
On 17.04.24 07:04, Lance Yang wrote:
> Hey David, Ryan,
>
> How about this change?
>
> static inline void clear_young_dirty_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
> unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
> unsigned int nr, cydp_t flags)
> {
> if (flags == CYDP_CLEAR_YOUNG) {
> for (;;) {
> ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, ptep);
> if (--nr == 0)
> break;
> ptep++;
> addr += PAGE_SIZE;
> }
> return;
> }
>
> pte_t pte;
>
> for (;;) {
> pte = ptep_get_and_clear(vma->vm_mm, addr, ptep);
>
> if (flags & CYDP_CLEAR_YOUNG)
> pte = pte_mkold(pte);
> if (flags & CYDP_CLEAR_DIRTY)
> pte = pte_mkclean(pte);
>
> if (--nr == 0)
> break;
> ptep++;
> addr += PAGE_SIZE;
> }
> }
Likely it might be best to just KIS for now and leave it as is. The
compiler should optimize out based on flags already, that's what I ignored.
--
Cheers,
David / dhildenb
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