Re: [PATCH] MIPS: make userspace mapping young by default

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Excerpts from Thomas Bogendoerfer's message of February 4, 2021 8:34 pm:
> On Thu, Feb 04, 2021 at 01:29:26PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> Excerpts from Huang Pei's message of February 4, 2021 11:39 am:
>> > MIPS page fault path(except huge page) takes 3 exceptions (1 TLB Miss
>> > + 2 TLB Invalid), butthe second TLB Invalid exception is just
>> > triggered by __update_tlb from do_page_fault writing tlb without
>> > _PAGE_VALID set. With this patch, user space mapping prot is made
>> > young by default (with both _PAGE_VALID and _PAGE_YOUNG set),
>> > and it only take 1 TLB Miss + 1 TLB Invalid exception
>> > 
>> > Remove pte_sw_mkyoung without polluting MM code and make page fault
>> > delay of MIPS on par with other architecture
>> > 
>> > Signed-off-by: Huang Pei <huangpei@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> Could we merge this? For the core code,
> 
> sure, but IMHO I should only merge the MIPS part, correct ?

You could ack it for MIPS and Andrew could take it through his tree 
would avoid dependencies.

Thanks,
Nick




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