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authorThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2018-09-17 16:29:13 +0200
committerThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>2018-09-27 20:39:38 +0200
commit69c31e69df3d2efc4ad7f53d500fdd920d3865a4 (patch)
tree0615952a93400f07f1529dcb3d063f5dc4177a11 /arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
parent5c280cf6081ff99078e28b51172d78359f194fd9 (diff)
x86/mm/cpa: Avoid static protection checks on unmap
If the new pgprot has the PRESENT bit cleared, then conflicts vs. RW/NX are completely irrelevant. Before: 1G pages checked: 2 1G pages sameprot: 0 1G pages preserved: 0 2M pages checked: 540 2M pages sameprot: 466 2M pages preserved: 47 4K pages checked: 800770 4K pages set-checked: 7668 After: 1G pages checked: 2 1G pages sameprot: 0 1G pages preserved: 0 2M pages checked: 540 2M pages sameprot: 466 2M pages preserved: 47 4K pages checked: 800709 4K pages set-checked: 7668 Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Bin Yang <bin.yang@intel.com> Cc: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180917143546.245849757@linutronix.de
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c7
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index cdf52eb86f3a..8f9083eb21ac 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -526,6 +526,13 @@ static inline pgprot_t static_protections(pgprot_t prot, unsigned long start,
pgprotval_t forbidden, res;
unsigned long end;
+ /*
+ * There is no point in checking RW/NX conflicts when the requested
+ * mapping is setting the page !PRESENT.
+ */
+ if (!(pgprot_val(prot) & _PAGE_PRESENT))
+ return prot;
+
/* Operate on the virtual address */
end = start + npg * PAGE_SIZE - 1;