mm: add pte_batch_hint() to reduce scanning in folio_pte_batch()
Some architectures (e.g. arm64) can tell from looking at a pte, if some follow-on ptes also map contiguous physical memory with the same pgprot. (for arm64, these are contpte mappings). Take advantage of this knowledge to optimize folio_pte_batch() so that it can skip these ptes when scanning to create a batch. By default, if an arch does not opt-in, folio_pte_batch() returns a compile-time 1, so the changes are optimized out and the behaviour is as before. arm64 will opt-in to providing this hint in the next patch, which will greatly reduce the cost of ptep_get() when scanning a range of contptes. Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240215103205.2607016-16-ryan.roberts@arm.com Signed-off-by:Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com> Acked-by:
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Tested-by:
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Cc: Alistair Popple <apopple@nvidia.com> Cc: Andrey Ryabinin <ryabinin.a.a@gmail.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.or...
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