On Thu, Feb 15, 2024 at 10:32:05AM +0000, Ryan Roberts wrote: > There are situations where a change to a single PTE could cause the > contpte block in which it resides to become foldable (i.e. could be > repainted with the contiguous bit). Such situations arise, for example, > when user space temporarily changes protections, via mprotect, for > individual pages, such can be the case for certain garbage collectors. > > We would like to detect when such a PTE change occurs. However this can > be expensive due to the amount of checking required. Therefore only > perform the checks when an indiviual PTE is modified via mprotect > (ptep_modify_prot_commit() -> set_pte_at() -> set_ptes(nr=1)) and only > when we are setting the final PTE in a contpte-aligned block. > > Signed-off-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@xxxxxxx> Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
