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authorSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2006-10-02 08:45:08 -0400
committerSteven Whitehouse <swhiteho@redhat.com>2006-10-02 08:45:08 -0400
commit59458f40e25915a355d8b1d701425fe9f4f9ea23 (patch)
treef1c9a2934df686e36d75f759ab7313b6f0e0e5f9 /include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
parent825f9075d74028d11d7f5932f04e1b5db3022b51 (diff)
parentd834c16516d1ebec4766fc58c059bf01311e6045 (diff)
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Merge branch 'master' into gfs2
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic/pgtable.h')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/pgtable.h37
1 files changed, 27 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 349260cd86ed..9d774d07d95b 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -15,19 +15,11 @@
* Note: the old pte is known to not be writable, so we don't need to
* worry about dirty bits etc getting lost.
*/
-#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_SET_PTE_ATOMIC
#define ptep_establish(__vma, __address, __ptep, __entry) \
do { \
set_pte_at((__vma)->vm_mm, (__address), __ptep, __entry); \
flush_tlb_page(__vma, __address); \
} while (0)
-#else /* __HAVE_ARCH_SET_PTE_ATOMIC */
-#define ptep_establish(__vma, __address, __ptep, __entry) \
-do { \
- set_pte_atomic(__ptep, __entry); \
- flush_tlb_page(__vma, __address); \
-} while (0)
-#endif /* __HAVE_ARCH_SET_PTE_ATOMIC */
#endif
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_SET_ACCESS_FLAGS
@@ -112,8 +104,13 @@ 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)
@@ -166,6 +163,26 @@ static inline void ptep_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addres
#endif
/*
+ * A facility to provide lazy MMU batching. This allows PTE updates and
+ * page invalidations to be delayed until a call to leave lazy MMU mode
+ * is issued. Some architectures may benefit from doing this, and it is
+ * beneficial for both shadow and direct mode hypervisors, which may batch
+ * the PTE updates which happen during this window. Note that using this
+ * interface requires that read hazards be removed from the code. A read
+ * hazard could result in the direct mode hypervisor case, since the actual
+ * write to the page tables may not yet have taken place, so reads though
+ * a raw PTE pointer after it has been modified are not guaranteed to be
+ * up to date. This mode can only be entered and left under the protection of
+ * the page table locks for all page tables which may be modified. In the UP
+ * case, this is required so that preemption is disabled, and in the SMP case,
+ * it must synchronize the delayed page table writes properly on other CPUs.
+ */
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_ENTER_LAZY_MMU_MODE
+#define arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() do {} while (0)
+#define arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode() do {} while (0)
+#endif
+
+/*
* When walking page tables, get the address of the next boundary,
* or the end address of the range if that comes earlier. Although no
* vma end wraps to 0, rounded up __boundary may wrap to 0 throughout.
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