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Commit 9b604722 authored by Mark Rutland's avatar Mark Rutland Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: mm: avoid redundant READ_ONCE(*ptep)



In set_pte_at(), we read the old pte value so that it can be passed into
checks for racy hw updates. These checks are only performed for
CONFIG_DEBUG_VM, and the value is not used otherwise.

Since we read the pte value with READ_ONCE(), the compiler cannot elide
the redundant read for !CONFIG_DEBUG_VM kernels.

Let's ameliorate matters by moving the read and the checks into a
helper, __check_racy_pte_update(), which only performs the read when the
value will be used. This also allows us to reformat the conditions for
clarity.

Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarMark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent 4745224b
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