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authorZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>2006-09-30 23:29:31 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-01 00:39:33 -0700
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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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/pgtable.h9
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 349260cd86ed..78740716c9e7 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -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)