The quilt patch titled Subject: mm/page_alloc: use try_cmpxchg in set_pfnblock_flags_mask has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was mm-page_alloc-use-try_cmpxchg-in-set_pfnblock_flags_mask.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm ------------------------------------------------------ From: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm/page_alloc: use try_cmpxchg in set_pfnblock_flags_mask Date: Fri, 8 Jul 2022 16:07:36 +0200 Use try_cmpxchg instead of cmpxchg in set_pfnblock_flags_mask. x86 CMPXCHG instruction returns success in ZF flag, so this change saves a compare after cmpxchg (and related move instruction in front of cmpxchg). The main loop improves from: 1c5d: 48 89 c2 mov %rax,%rdx 1c60: 48 89 c1 mov %rax,%rcx 1c63: 48 21 fa and %rdi,%rdx 1c66: 4c 09 c2 or %r8,%rdx 1c69: f0 48 0f b1 16 lock cmpxchg %rdx,(%rsi) 1c6e: 48 39 c1 cmp %rax,%rcx 1c71: 75 ea jne 1c5d <...> to: 1c60: 48 89 ca mov %rcx,%rdx 1c63: 48 21 c2 and %rax,%rdx 1c66: 4c 09 c2 or %r8,%rdx 1c69: f0 48 0f b1 16 lock cmpxchg %rdx,(%rsi) 1c6e: 75 f0 jne 1c60 <...> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20220708140736.8737-1-ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Uros Bizjak <ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- mm/page_alloc.c | 10 +++------- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) --- a/mm/page_alloc.c~mm-page_alloc-use-try_cmpxchg-in-set_pfnblock_flags_mask +++ a/mm/page_alloc.c @@ -602,7 +602,7 @@ void set_pfnblock_flags_mask(struct page { unsigned long *bitmap; unsigned long bitidx, word_bitidx; - unsigned long old_word, word; + unsigned long word; BUILD_BUG_ON(NR_PAGEBLOCK_BITS != 4); BUILD_BUG_ON(MIGRATE_TYPES > (1 << PB_migratetype_bits)); @@ -618,12 +618,8 @@ void set_pfnblock_flags_mask(struct page flags <<= bitidx; word = READ_ONCE(bitmap[word_bitidx]); - for (;;) { - old_word = cmpxchg(&bitmap[word_bitidx], word, (word & ~mask) | flags); - if (word == old_word) - break; - word = old_word; - } + do { + } while (!try_cmpxchg(&bitmap[word_bitidx], &word, (word & ~mask) | flags)); } void set_pageblock_migratetype(struct page *page, int migratetype) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from ubizjak@xxxxxxxxx are compiler-gcch-remove-ancient-workaround-for-gcc-pr-58670.patch