Re: [PATCH v4 32/36] mm: Use flush_icache_pages() in do_set_pmd()

[Anshuman Khandual]

On 3/15/23 10:44, Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) wrote:
> Push the iteration over each page down to the architectures (many
> can flush the entire THP without iteration).
> 
> Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox (Oracle) <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@xxxxxxx>

> ---
>  mm/memory.c | 4 +---
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 3 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/memory.c b/mm/memory.c
> index c5f1bf906d0c..6aa21e8f3753 100644
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -4209,7 +4209,6 @@ vm_fault_t do_set_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page)
>  	bool write = vmf->flags & FAULT_FLAG_WRITE;
>  	unsigned long haddr = vmf->address & HPAGE_PMD_MASK;
>  	pmd_t entry;
> -	int i;
>  	vm_fault_t ret = VM_FAULT_FALLBACK;
>  
>  	if (!transhuge_vma_suitable(vma, haddr))
> @@ -4242,8 +4241,7 @@ vm_fault_t do_set_pmd(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct page *page)
>  	if (unlikely(!pmd_none(*vmf->pmd)))
>  		goto out;
>  
> -	for (i = 0; i < HPAGE_PMD_NR; i++)
> -		flush_icache_page(vma, page + i);
> +	flush_icache_pages(vma, page, HPAGE_PMD_NR);
>  
>  	entry = mk_huge_pmd(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
>  	if (write)