}
/*
+ * Optimization: If the requested pgprot is the same as the current
+ * pgprot, then the large page can be preserved and no updates are
+ * required independent of alignment and length of the requested
+ * range. The above already established that the current pgprot is
+ * correct, which in consequence makes the requested pgprot correct
+ * as well if it is the same. The static protection scan below will
+ * not come to a different conclusion.
+ */
+ if (pgprot_val(req_prot) == pgprot_val(old_prot)) {
+ cpa_inc_lp_sameprot(level);
+ return 0;
+ }
+
+ /*
* Make sure that the requested pgprot does not violate the static
* protections. Check the full large page whether one of the pages
* in it results in a different pgprot than the first one of the