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Commit 6c1b748e authored by John Hubbard's avatar John Hubbard Committed by Andrew Morton
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mm/memory.c: do_numa_page(): remove a redundant page table read

do_numa_page() is reading from the same page table entry, twice, while
holding the page table lock: once while checking that the pte hasn't
changed, and again in order to modify the pte.

Instead, just read the pte once, and save it in the same old_pte variable
that already exists.  This has no effect on behavior, other than to
provide a tiny potential improvement to performance, by avoiding the
redundant memory read (which the compiler cannot elide, due to
READ_ONCE()).

Also improve the associated comments nearby.

Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20240228034151.459370-1-jhubbard@nvidia.com


Signed-off-by: default avatarJohn Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDavid Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarRyan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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