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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2015-02-12 14:58:44 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-12 18:54:08 -0800
commit10c1045f28e86ac90589a188f0be2d7a4347efdf (patch)
tree1bb321876125ca1afb061ada97462fb6bb23fc2c /mm/mprotect.c
parentc0e7cad9f2390087b53e26e7b98958d8793ee02d (diff)
downloadlinux-10c1045f28e86ac90589a188f0be2d7a4347efdf.tar.bz2
mm: numa: avoid unnecessary TLB flushes when setting NUMA hinting entries
If a PTE or PMD is already marked NUMA when scanning to mark entries for NUMA hinting then it is not necessary to update the entry and incur a TLB flush penalty. Avoid the avoidhead where possible. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Cc: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Cc: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/mprotect.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/mprotect.c4
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/mm/mprotect.c b/mm/mprotect.c
index dd599fc235c2..44727811bf4c 100644
--- a/mm/mprotect.c
+++ b/mm/mprotect.c
@@ -86,6 +86,10 @@ static unsigned long change_pte_range(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pmd_t *pmd,
page = vm_normal_page(vma, addr, oldpte);
if (!page || PageKsm(page))
continue;
+
+ /* Avoid TLB flush if possible */
+ if (pte_protnone(oldpte))
+ continue;
}
ptent = ptep_modify_prot_start(mm, addr, pte);