[PATCH v5 15/22] powerpc/mm: Avoid useless lock with single page fragments
Christophe Leroy
christophe.leroy at c-s.fr
Wed Sep 26 02:51:08 AEST 2018
There is no point in taking the page table lock as pte_frag or
pmd_frag are always NULL when we have only one fragment.
Signed-off-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr>
---
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c | 3 +++
arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c | 3 +++
2 files changed, 6 insertions(+)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c
index 723cd324fa34..c43e225e124d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-book3s64.c
@@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ static pmd_t *get_pmd_from_cache(struct mm_struct *mm)
{
void *pmd_frag, *ret;
+ if (PMD_FRAG_NR == 1)
+ return NULL;
+
spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
ret = mm->context.pmd_frag;
if (ret) {
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c
index d61e7c2a9a79..7544d0d7177d 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/mm/pgtable-frag.c
@@ -34,6 +34,9 @@ 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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