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Suggested-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20221022114424.515572025%40infradead.org
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Peter Zijlstra 2020-11-26 14:04:46 +01:00 committed by Dave Hansen
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@ -300,15 +300,12 @@ static inline pte_t ptep_get(pte_t *ptep)
#ifdef CONFIG_GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH
/*
* WARNING: only to be used in the get_user_pages_fast() implementation.
*
* With get_user_pages_fast(), we walk down the pagetables without taking any
* locks. For this we would like to load the pointers atomically, but sometimes
* that is not possible (e.g. without expensive cmpxchg8b on x86_32 PAE). What
* we do have is the guarantee that a PTE will only either go from not present
* to present, or present to not present or both -- it will not switch to a
* completely different present page without a TLB flush in between; something
* that we are blocking by holding interrupts off.
* For walking the pagetables without holding any locks. Some architectures
* (eg x86-32 PAE) cannot load the entries atomically without using expensive
* instructions. We are guaranteed that a PTE will only either go from not
* present to present, or present to not present -- it will not switch to a
* completely different present page without a TLB flush inbetween; which we
* are blocking by holding interrupts off.
*
* Setting ptes from not present to present goes:
*