mm: arm64: document why pte is not advanced in contpte_ptep_set_access_flags()

According to David and Ryan, there isn't a bug here, even though we
don't advance the PTE entry, because __ptep_set_access_flags() only
uses the access flags from the entry.

However, we always check pte_same(pte, entry) using the first entry
in __ptep_set_access_flags(). This means that the checks from 1 to
nr - 1 are not comparing the same PTE indexes (thus, they always
return false), which can be a bit confusing. To clarify the code, let's
add some comments.

Reviewed-by: Ryan Roberts <ryan.roberts@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: Barry Song <v-songbaohua@oppo.com>
Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org>
Cc: John Hubbard <jhubbard@nvidia.com>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: David Hildenbrand <david@redhat.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20240905081124.9576-1-21cnbao@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will@kernel.org>

diff --git a/arch/arm64/mm/contpte.c b/arch/arm64/mm/contpte.c
index a3edced29ac1383564f432139ed01def1913d28b..55107d27d3f8834f85f4d968e770fc47e1b61521 100644 (file)
--- a/arch/arm64/mm/contpte.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/mm/contpte.c
@@ -421,6 +421,12 @@ int contpte_ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
                ptep = contpte_align_down(ptep);
                start_addr = addr = ALIGN_DOWN(addr, CONT_PTE_SIZE);
 
+               /*
+                * We are not advancing entry because __ptep_set_access_flags()
+                * only consumes access flags from entry. And since we have checked
+                * for the whole contpte block and returned early, pte_same()
+                * within __ptep_set_access_flags() is likely false.
+                */
                for (i = 0; i < CONT_PTES; i++, ptep++, addr += PAGE_SIZE)
                        __ptep_set_access_flags(vma, addr, ptep, entry, 0);