0008-x86-mm-cpa-Avoid-static-protection-checks-on-unmap.patch

From 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Date: Mon, 17 Sep 2018 16:29:13 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] x86/mm/cpa: Avoid static protection checks on unmap

If the new pgprot has the PRESENT bit cleared, then conflicts vs. RW/NX are
completely irrelevant.

Before:

 1G pages checked:                    2
 1G pages sameprot:                   0
 1G pages preserved:                  0
 2M pages checked:                  540
 2M pages sameprot:                 466
 2M pages preserved:                 47
 4K pages checked:               800770
 4K pages set-checked:             7668

After:

 1G pages checked:                    2
 1G pages sameprot:                   0
 1G pages preserved:                  0
 2M pages checked:                  540
 2M pages sameprot:                 466
 2M pages preserved:                 47
 4K pages checked:               800709
 4K pages set-checked:             7668

Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Reviewed-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Bin Yang <bin.yang@intel.com>
Cc: Mark Gross <mark.gross@intel.com>
Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180917143546.245849757@linutronix.de

Cc: Zhang Ning <ning.a.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lili Li <lili.li@intel.com>
---
 arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 7 +++++++
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index af3b48f87caa..0c9fd2fe8d57 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -526,6 +526,13 @@ static inline pgprot_t static_protections(pgprot_t prot, unsigned long start,
 	pgprotval_t forbidden, res;
 	unsigned long end;
 
+	/*
+	 * There is no point in checking RW/NX conflicts when the requested
+	 * mapping is setting the page !PRESENT.
+	 */
+	if (!(pgprot_val(prot) & _PAGE_PRESENT))
+		return prot;
+
 	/* Operate on the virtual address */
 	end = start + npg * PAGE_SIZE - 1;
 
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