On 9/18/18 10:27 PM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
There is no point in taking the page table lock as
pte_frag is always NULL when we have only one fragment.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.le...@c-s.fr>
---
  arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c | 3 +++
  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c
index bc924822dcd6..ab4910e92aaf 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c
@@ -85,6 +85,9 @@ static pte_t *get_pte_from_cache(struct mm_struct *mm)
  {
        void *pte_frag, *ret;

+       if (PTE_FRAG_NR == 1)
+               return NULL;
+
        spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
        ret = mm->context.pte_frag;
        if (ret) {


May be update get_pmd_from_cache too?

-aneesh

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