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    x86/mm/dump_pagetables: Speed up page tables dump for CONFIG_KASAN=y · 04b67022
    Andrey Ryabinin authored
    
    
    KASAN fills kernel page tables with repeated values to map several
    TBs of the virtual memory to the single kasan_zero_page:
      kasan_zero_p4d ->
        kasan_zero_pud ->
            kasan_zero_pmd->
                kasan_zero_pte->
                    kasan_zero_page
    
    Walking the whole KASAN shadow range takes a lot of time, especially
    with 5-level page tables. Since we already know that all kasan page tables
    eventually point to the kasan_zero_page we could call note_page()
    right and avoid walking lower levels of the page tables.
    This will not affect the output of the kernel_page_tables file,
    but let us avoid spending time in page table walkers:
    
    Before:
    
      $ time cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables > /dev/null
    
      real    0m55.855s
      user    0m0.000s
      sys     0m55.840s
    
    After:
    
      $ time cat /sys/kernel/debug/kernel_page_tables > /dev/null
    
      real    0m0.054s
      user    0m0.000s
      sys     0m0.054s
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarAndrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@virtuozzo.com>
    Acked-by: default avatarKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Alexander Potapenko <glider@google.com>
    Cc: Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@google.com>
    Cc: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
    Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
    Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
    Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
    Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170724152558.24689-1-aryabinin@virtuozzo.com
    
    
    Signed-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
    04b67022