When transitioning a PTE from young to old as part of page aging, we
can avoid waiting for the TLB invalidation to complete and therefore
drop the subsequent DSB instruction. Whilst this opens up a race with
page reclaim, where a PTE in active use via a stale, young TLB entry
does not update the underlying descriptor, the worst thing that happens
is that the page is reclaimed and then immediately faulted back in.
Given that we have a DSB in our context-switch path, the window for a
spurious reclaim is fairly limited and eliding the barrier claims to
boost NVMe/SSD accesses by over 10% on some platforms.
A similar optimisation was made for x86 in commit b13b1d2d86 ("x86/mm:
In the PTE swapout page reclaim case clear the accessed bit instead of
flushing the TLB").
Signed-off-by: Alex Van Brunt <avanbrunt@nvidia.com>
Signed-off-by: Ashish Mhetre <amhetre@nvidia.com>
[will: rewrote patch]
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
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