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authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>2018-01-31 16:18:13 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2018-01-31 17:18:38 -0800
commit86fa949b050184ffc53688516a6a83ae5f98d08a (patch)
tree58d1c3e2704aa32706c528afd6030a70de60ae15 /mm/pgtable-generic.c
parenta8e654f01cb725d0bfd741ebca1bf4c9337969cc (diff)
x86/mm: provide pmdp_establish() helper
We need an atomic way to setup pmd page table entry, avoiding races with CPU setting dirty/accessed bits. This is required to implement pmdp_invalidate() that doesn't lose these bits. On PAE we can avoid expensive cmpxchg8b for cases when new page table entry is not present. If it's present, fallback to cpmxchg loop. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing `do' to do-while loop] Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171213105756.69879-10-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz> Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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