[PATCH] x86/mm/pat: don't gate cpa_lock on debug_pagealloc_enabled()
From: Mike Rapoport
Date: Wed Jul 15 2026 - 11:08:04 EST
From: "Mike Rapoport (Microsoft)" <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
Dave Hansen says:
My only question is *why*!?!? Why add extra locking complexity and rules
to optimize debug_pagealloc, which is already horrendously slow.
Stop gating cpa_lock on debug_pagealloc_enabled() to simplify the code.
Suggested-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Mike Rapoport (Microsoft) <rppt@xxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c | 19 +++++++------------
1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
index d023a40a1e03..e8316f5ffa8a 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pat/set_memory.c
@@ -62,10 +62,9 @@ enum cpa_warn {
static const int cpa_warn_level = CPA_PROTECT;
/*
- * Serialize cpa() (for !DEBUG_PAGEALLOC which uses large identity mappings)
- * using cpa_lock. So that we don't allow any other cpu, with stale large tlb
- * entries change the page attribute in parallel to some other cpu
- * splitting a large page entry along with changing the attribute.
+ * Serialize cpa() using cpa_lock so that we don't allow any other cpu, with
+ * stale large tlb entries, to change the page attribute in parallel to some
+ * other cpu splitting a large page entry along with changing the attribute.
*/
static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(cpa_lock);
@@ -1235,11 +1234,9 @@ static int split_large_page(struct cpa_data *cpa, pte_t *kpte,
{
struct ptdesc *ptdesc;
- if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
- spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
ptdesc = pagetable_alloc(GFP_KERNEL, 0);
- if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
- spin_lock(&cpa_lock);
+ spin_lock(&cpa_lock);
if (!ptdesc)
return -ENOMEM;
@@ -2023,11 +2020,9 @@ static int __change_page_attr_set_clr(struct cpa_data *cpa, int primary)
if (cpa->flags & (CPA_ARRAY | CPA_PAGES_ARRAY))
cpa->numpages = 1;
- if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
- spin_lock(&cpa_lock);
+ spin_lock(&cpa_lock);
ret = __change_page_attr(cpa, primary);
- if (!debug_pagealloc_enabled())
- spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
+ spin_unlock(&cpa_lock);
if (ret)
goto out;
base-commit: a13c140cc289c0b7b3770bce5b3ad42ab35074aa
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2.53.0