Re: [PATCH v4 0/8] Create 'old' ptes for faultaround mappings on arm64 with hardware access flag

[Will Deacon]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2021 at 05:36:04PM +0000, Will Deacon wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This is version four of the patches I previously posted here:
> 
>   v1: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20201209163950.8494-1-will@xxxxxxxxxx
>   v2: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210108171517.5290-1-will@xxxxxxxxxx
>   v3: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210114175934.13070-1-will@xxxxxxxxxx
> 
> The patches allow architectures to opt-in at runtime for faultaround
> mappings to be created as 'old' instead of 'young'. Although there have
> been previous attempts at this, they failed either because the decision
> was deferred to userspace [1] or because it was done unconditionally and
> shown to regress benchmarks for particular architectures [2].
> 
> The big change since v3 is that the immutable fields of 'struct vm_fault'
> now live in a 'const' anonymous struct. Although Clang will silently
> accept modifications to these fields [3], GCC emits an error. The
> resulting diffstat is _considerably_ more manageable with this approach.

The only changes I have pending against this series are cosmetic (commit
logs). Can I go ahead and queue this in the arm64 tree so that it can sit
in linux-next for a bit? (positive or negative feedback appreciated!).

Thanks,

Will