arm64/mm: Implement pte_batch_hint()
When core code iterates over a range of ptes and calls ptep_get() for each of them, if the range happens to cover contpte mappings, the number of pte reads becomes amplified by a factor of the number of PTEs in a contpte block. This is because for each call to ptep_get(), the implementation must read all of the ptes in the contpte block to which it belongs to gather the access and dirty bits. This causes a hotspot for fork(), as well as operations that unmap memory such as munmap(), exit and madvise(MADV_DONTNEED). Fortunately we can fix this by implementing pte_batch_hint() which allows their iterators to skip getting the contpte tail ptes when gathering the batch of ptes to operate on. This results in the number of PTE reads returning to 1 per pte. Acked-by:Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com> Reviewed-by:
David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com> Tested-by:
John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com> Signed-off-by:
Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
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