arm64-mm-implement-the-architecture-specific-test_and_clear_young_ptes.patch removed from -mm tree

The quilt patch titled
Subject: arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific test_and_clear_young_ptes()
has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was
arm64-mm-implement-the-architecture-specific-test_and_clear_young_ptes.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into the mm-stable branch of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/akpm/mm

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From: Baolin Wang <[email protected]>
Subject: arm64: mm: implement the architecture-specific test_and_clear_young_ptes()
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2026 14:43:42 +0800

Implement the Arm64 architecture-specific test_and_clear_young_ptes() to enable batched checking of young flags, improving performance during large folio reclamation when MGLRU is enabled.

While we're at it, simplify ptep_test_and_clear_young() by calling test_and_clear_young_ptes(). Since callers guarantee that PTEs are present before calling these functions, we can use pte_cont() to check the CONT_PTE flag instead of pte_valid_cont().

Performance testing:

Enable MGLRU, then allocate 10G clean file-backed folios by mmap() in a memory cgroup, and try to reclaim 8G file-backed folios via the memory.reclaim interface. I can observe 60%+ performance improvement on my Arm64 32-core server (and about 15% improvement on my X86 machine).

W/o patchset:
real 0m0.470s
user 0m0.000s
sys 0m0.470s

W/ patchset:
real 0m0.180s
user 0m0.001s
sys 0m0.179s

---

 arch/arm64/include/asm/pgtable.h |   18 ++++++++++++------
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

@@ -1812,16 +1812,22 @@ static inline pte_t ptep_get_and_clear(s
 	return __ptep_get_and_clear(mm, addr, ptep);
 }
 
+#define test_and_clear_young_ptes test_and_clear_young_ptes
+static inline int test_and_clear_young_ptes(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+					    unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep,
+					    unsigned int nr)
+{
+	if (likely(nr == 1 && !pte_cont(__ptep_get(ptep))))
+		return __ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, ptep);
+
+	return contpte_test_and_clear_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, nr);
+}
+
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_TEST_AND_CLEAR_YOUNG
 static inline int ptep_test_and_clear_young(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 				unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
 {
-	pte_t orig_pte = __ptep_get(ptep);
-
-	if (likely(!pte_valid_cont(orig_pte)))
-		return __ptep_test_and_clear_young(vma, addr, ptep);
-
-	return contpte_test_and_clear_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, 1);
+	return test_and_clear_young_ptes(vma, addr, ptep, 1);
 }
 
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_CLEAR_YOUNG_FLUSH

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Patches currently in -mm which might be from [email protected] are

mm-filemap-fix-nr_pages-calculation-overflow-in-filemap_map_pages.patch mm-vmscan-fix-dirty-folios-throttling-on-cgroup-v1-for-mglru.patch