mm: add p[te|md] protnone helpers for use by NUMA balancing

This is a preparatory patch that introduces protnone helpers for automatic
NUMA balancing.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 129de9204d18..067922c06c29 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -673,6 +673,26 @@ static inline int pmd_trans_unstable(pmd_t *pmd)
 #endif
 }
 
+#ifndef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
+/*
+ * Technically a PTE can be PROTNONE even when not doing NUMA balancing but
+ * the only case the kernel cares is for NUMA balancing and is only ever set
+ * when the VMA is accessible. For PROT_NONE VMAs, the PTEs are not marked
+ * _PAGE_PROTNONE so by by default, implement the helper as "always no". It
+ * is the responsibility of the caller to distinguish between PROT_NONE
+ * protections and NUMA hinting fault protections.
+ */
+static inline int pte_protnone(pte_t pte)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+
+static inline int pmd_protnone(pmd_t pmd)
+{
+	return 0;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
+
 #ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
 /*
  * _PAGE_NUMA distinguishes between an unmapped page table entry, an entry that