Commit 1ed19b56 authored by Yu Zhao's avatar Yu Zhao Committed by Todd Kjos
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FROMLIST: mm: x86, arm64: add arch_has_hw_pte_young()

Some architectures automatically set the accessed bit in PTEs, e.g.,
x86 and arm64 v8.2. On architectures that do not have this capability,
clearing the accessed bit in a PTE usually triggers a page fault
following the TLB miss of this PTE (to emulate the accessed bit).

Being aware of this capability can help make better decisions, e.g.,
whether to spread the work out over a period of time to reduce bursty
page faults when trying to clear the accessed bit in many PTEs.

Note that theoretically this capability can be unreliable, e.g.,
hotplugged CPUs might be different from builtin ones. Therefore it
should not be used in architecture-independent code that involves
correctness, e.g., to determine whether TLB flushes are required (in
combination with the accessed bit).

Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220309021230.721028-2-yuzhao@google.com/


Signed-off-by: default avatarYu Zhao <yuzhao@google.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarBarry Song <baohua@kernel.org>
Acked-by: default avatarBrian Geffon <bgeffon@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarJan Alexander Steffens (heftig) <heftig@archlinux.org>
Acked-by: default avatarOleksandr Natalenko <oleksandr@natalenko.name>
Acked-by: default avatarSteven Barrett <steven@liquorix.net>
Acked-by: default avatarSuleiman Souhlal <suleiman@google.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Tested-by: default avatarDaniel Byrne <djbyrne@mtu.edu>
Tested-by: default avatarDonald Carr <d@chaos-reins.com>
Tested-by: default avatarHolger Hoffstätte <holger@applied-asynchrony.com>
Tested-by: default avatarKonstantin Kharlamov <Hi-Angel@yandex.ru>
Tested-by: default avatarShuang Zhai <szhai2@cs.rochester.edu>
Tested-by: default avatarSofia Trinh <sofia.trinh@edi.works>
Tested-by: default avatarVaibhav Jain <vaibhav@linux.ibm.com>
Bug: 227651406
Signed-off-by: default avatarKalesh Singh <kaleshsingh@google.com>
Change-Id: Ie81175d7e0d239f688d31487b298cf9b4fb66707
parent b4f3b6ac
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