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| author | Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> | 2008-09-23 14:00:40 -0700 |
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| committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-10-10 19:29:15 +0200 |
| commit | 55121b4369ced87863bf04da1f762a37e58aee4d (patch) | |
| tree | 2457540a64011581ac4510cfeeba27399c4f92ae /arch/x86 | |
| parent | 0b8fdcbcd287a1fbe66817491e6149841ae25705 (diff) | |
x86, cpa: no need to check alias for __set_pages_p/__set_pages_np
No alias checking needed for setting present/not-present mapping. Otherwise,
we may need to break large pages for 64-bit kernel text mappings (this adds to
complexity if we want to do this from atomic context especially, for ex:
with CONFIG_DEBUG_PAGEALLOC). Let's keep it simple!
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: arjan@linux.intel.com
Cc: venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
Cc: jeremy@goop.org
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 23 |
1 files changed, 16 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c index 4b6968ba086..162812b05d2 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -1121,7 +1121,13 @@ static int __set_pages_p(struct page *page, int numpages) .mask_clr = __pgprot(0), .flags = 0}; - return __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa, 1); + /* + * No alias checking needed for setting present flag. otherwise, + * we may need to break large pages for 64-bit kernel text + * mappings (this adds to complexity if we want to do this from + * atomic context especially). Let's keep it simple! + */ + return __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa, 0); } static int __set_pages_np(struct page *page, int numpages) @@ -1133,7 +1139,13 @@ static int __set_pages_np(struct page *page, int numpages) .mask_clr = __pgprot(_PAGE_PRESENT | _PAGE_RW), .flags = 0}; - return __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa, 1); + /* + * No alias checking needed for setting not present flag. otherwise, + * we may need to break large pages for 64-bit kernel text + * mappings (this adds to complexity if we want to do this from + * atomic context especially). Let's keep it simple! + */ + return __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa, 0); } void kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable) @@ -1153,11 +1165,8 @@ void kernel_map_pages(struct page *page, int numpages, int enable) /* * The return value is ignored as the calls cannot fail. - * Large pages are kept enabled at boot time, and are - * split up quickly with DEBUG_PAGEALLOC. If a splitup - * fails here (due to temporary memory shortage) no damage - * is done because we just keep the largepage intact up - * to the next attempt when it will likely be split up: + * Large pages for identity mappings are not used at boot time + * and hence no memory allocations during large page split. */ if (enable) __set_pages_p(page, numpages); |