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>
-#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)
do { \
pte_clear((__mm), (__address), (__ptep)); \
} while (0)
} else {
if (!pte_file(pte))
free_swap_and_cache(pte_to_swp_entry(pte));
} 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);
continue;
if (!pte_file(ptent))
free_swap_and_cache(pte_to_swp_entry(ptent));
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);
} while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, (addr != end && *zap_work > 0));
add_mm_rss(mm, file_rss, anon_rss);