On Thu, Oct 20, 2022 at 7:14 AM Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > So I've been sitting on these here patches (and never having time to > repost them), which is how I noticed in the first place: > > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/queue.git/log/?h=x86/mm.pae Well, that seems an improvement. I don't love how GUP_GET_PTE_LOW_HIGH now affects the PMD too, but if it's ok for all the three users, I guess it's ok. Maybe rename it now that it's not just the PTE? That said, I reacted to that cmpxchg loop: } while (cmpxchg64(&pmdp->pmd, old.pmd, 0ULL) != old.pmd); is this series just so old (but rebased) that it doesn't use "try_cmpxchg64()"? Linus