On Fri,  5 Jun 2020 17:11:05 +0800 Bibo Mao <maob...@loongson.cn> wrote:

> On MIPS system which has rixi hardware bit, page access bit is not
> set in pgrot. For memory reading, there will be one page fault to
> allocate physical page; however valid bit is not set, there will
> be the second fast tlb-miss fault handling to set valid/access bit.
> 
> This patch set page access/valid bit with pgrot if there is reading
> access privilege. It will reduce one tlb-miss handling for memory
> reading access.
> 
> The valid/access bit will be cleared in order to track memory
> accessing activity. If the page is accessed, tlb-miss fast handling
> will set valid/access bit, pte_sw_mkyoung is not necessary in slow
> page fault path. This patch removes pte_sw_mkyoung function which
> is defined as empty function except MIPS system.
> 
> ...
>
> --- a/mm/memory.c
> +++ b/mm/memory.c
> @@ -2704,7 +2704,6 @@ static vm_fault_t wp_page_copy(struct vm_fault *vmf)
>               }
>               flush_cache_page(vma, vmf->address, pte_pfn(vmf->orig_pte));
>               entry = mk_pte(new_page, vma->vm_page_prot);
> -             entry = pte_sw_mkyoung(entry);
>               entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
>               /*
>                * Clear the pte entry and flush it first, before updating the
> @@ -3379,7 +3378,6 @@ static vm_fault_t do_anonymous_page(struct vm_fault 
> *vmf)
>       __SetPageUptodate(page);
>  
>       entry = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
> -     entry = pte_sw_mkyoung(entry);
>       if (vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE)
>               entry = pte_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry));
>  
> @@ -3662,7 +3660,6 @@ vm_fault_t alloc_set_pte(struct vm_fault *vmf, struct 
> mem_cgroup *memcg,
>  
>       flush_icache_page(vma, page);
>       entry = mk_pte(page, vma->vm_page_prot);
> -     entry = pte_sw_mkyoung(entry);
>       if (write)
>               entry = maybe_mkwrite(pte_mkdirty(entry), vma);
>       /* copy-on-write page */

Only affects mips, so cheerily

Acked-by: Andrew Morton <a...@linux-foundation.org>

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