[PATCH v4 15/20] powerpc/mm: Avoid useless lock with single page fragments
Christophe Leroy
christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Wed Sep 19 02:57:32 AEST 2018
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.leroy at 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) {
--
2.13.3
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