x86/mm: Stop prefetching current->mm->mmap_lock on page faults
The prefetchw() dates back decades and the fundamental notion of doing something like this on a lock is shady. Moreover, for a few years now in the fast path faults are handled with RCU + per-vma locking, hopefully not even looking at the lock to begin with. As such just remove it. I did not see a point benchmarking this. Given that it is not expected to be looked at by default justifies not doing the prefetch. Signed-off-by:Mateusz Guzik <mjguzik@gmail.com> Signed-off-by:
Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@surriel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20250401143520.1113572-1-mjguzik@gmail.com
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