Re: [PATCH] mm/hugetlb: Remove unnecessary huge_ptep_set_access_flags() in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte()

[Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>]

On 5/25/22 15:56, Baolin Wang wrote:
> There is no need to update the hugetlb access flags after just setting the
> hugetlb page table entry by set_huge_pte_at(), since the page table entry
> value has no changes. Thus remove the unnecessary huge_ptep_set_access_flags()

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value has no changes. Thus remove the unnecessary huge_ptep_set_access_flags()

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> in hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte().
> 
> Signed-off-by: Baolin Wang <baolin.wang@linux.alibaba.com>

Otherwise LGTM,

Reviewed-by: Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@arm.com>

> ---
>  mm/hugetlb.c | 2 --
>  1 file changed, 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/hugetlb.c b/mm/hugetlb.c
> index 7c468ac..3ad49bf 100644
> --- a/mm/hugetlb.c
> +++ b/mm/hugetlb.c
> @@ -6032,8 +6032,6 @@ int hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte(struct mm_struct *dst_mm,
>  
>  	set_huge_pte_at(dst_mm, dst_addr, dst_pte, _dst_pte);
>  
> -	(void)huge_ptep_set_access_flags(dst_vma, dst_addr, dst_pte, _dst_pte,
> -					dst_vma->vm_flags & VM_WRITE);
>  	hugetlb_count_add(pages_per_huge_page(h), dst_mm);
>  
>  	/* No need to invalidate - it was non-present before */