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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 14/18] arm64/mm: Implement new
 [get_and_]clear_full_ptes() batch APIs
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On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:32:01AM +0000, Ryan Roberts wrote:
> Optimize the contpte implementation to fix some of the
> exit/munmap/dontneed performance regression introduced by the initial
> contpte commit. Subsequent patches will solve it entirely.
> 
> During exit(), munmap() or madvise(MADV_DONTNEED), mappings must be
> cleared. Previously this was done 1 PTE at a time. But the core-mm
> supports batched clear via the new [get_and_]clear_full_ptes() APIs. So
> let's implement those APIs and for fully covered contpte mappings, we no
> longer need to unfold the contpte. This significantly reduces unfolding
> operations, reducing the number of tlbis that must be issued.
> 
> Tested-by: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
> Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>