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[PATCH] paravirt: pte clear not present 

Change pte_clear_full to a more appropriately named pte_clear_not_present,
allowing optimizations when not-present mapping changes need not be reflected
in the hardware TLB for protected page table modes.  There is also another
case that can use it in the fremap code.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Zachary Amsden 2006-09-30 23:29:31 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 3dc9079514
commit 9888a1cae3
3 changed files with 9 additions and 4 deletions
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include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
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@ -112,8 +112,13 @@ do { \
})
#endif
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_CLEAR_FULL
#define pte_clear_full(__mm, __address, __ptep, __full) \
/*
* Some architectures may be able to avoid expensive synchronization
* primitives when modifications are made to PTE's which are already
* not present, or in the process of an address space destruction.
*/
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_CLEAR_NOT_PRESENT_FULL
#define pte_clear_not_present_full(__mm, __address, __ptep, __full) \
do { \
pte_clear((__mm), (__address), (__ptep)); \
} while (0)

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mm/fremap.c
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@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static int zap_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, struct vm_area_struct *vma,
} else {
if (!pte_file(pte))
free_swap_and_cache(pte_to_swp_entry(pte));
pte_clear(mm, addr, ptep);
pte_clear_not_present_full(mm, addr, ptep, 0);
}
return !!page;
}

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mm/memory.c
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@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ static unsigned long zap_pte_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb,
continue;
if (!pte_file(ptent))
free_swap_and_cache(pte_to_swp_entry(ptent));
pte_clear_full(mm, addr, pte, tlb->fullmm);
pte_clear_not_present_full(mm, addr, pte, tlb->fullmm);
} while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, (addr != end && *zap_work > 0));
add_mm_rss(mm, file_rss, anon_rss);