[PATCH 0/1] mm: Optimizing hugepage zeroing in arm64

[Prathu Baronia]

Hello!

This patch removes the unnecessary kmap calls in the hugepage zeroing path and
improves the timing by 62%.

I had proposed a similar change in Apr-May'20 timeframe in memory.c where I
proposed to clear out a hugepage by directly calling a memset over the whole
hugepage but got the opposition that the change was not architecturally neutral.

Upon revisiting this now I see significant improvement by removing around 2k
barrier calls from the zeroing path. So hereby I propose an arm64 specific
definition of clear_user_highpage().

Prathu Baronia (1):
  mm: Optimizing hugepage zeroing in arm64

 arch/arm64/include/asm/page.h | 3 +++
 arch/arm64/mm/copypage.c      | 8 ++++++++
 2 files changed, 11 insertions(+)

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