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| author | Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> | 2006-09-30 23:29:36 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-01 00:39:34 -0700 |
| commit | d6d861e3c963b4077c83e078e3e300c4b81f93e7 (patch) | |
| tree | 842071ac905575aa0ea8bedd3a1ac5db29416bcf /kernel/mutex.c | |
| parent | 23002d88be309a7c78db69363c9d933a29a3b0bb (diff) | |
[PATCH] paravirt: optimize ptep establish for pae
The ptep_establish macro is only used on user-level PTEs, for P->P mapping
changes. Since these always happen under protection of the pagetable lock,
the strong synchronization of a 64-bit cmpxchg is not needed, in fact, not
even a lock prefix needs to be used. We can simply instead clear the P-bit,
followed by a normal set. The write ordering is still important to avoid the
possibility of the TLB snooping a partially written PTE and getting a bad
mapping installed.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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