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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/pgtable.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/pgtable.h | 42 |
1 files changed, 30 insertions, 12 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h index 94d267d02372..e2b705c14945 100644 --- a/include/linux/pgtable.h +++ b/include/linux/pgtable.h @@ -222,10 +222,14 @@ static inline int pmd_dirty(pmd_t pmd) * hazard could result in the direct mode hypervisor case, since the actual * write to the page tables may not yet have taken place, so reads though * a raw PTE pointer after it has been modified are not guaranteed to be - * up to date. This mode can only be entered and left under the protection of - * the page table locks for all page tables which may be modified. In the UP - * case, this is required so that preemption is disabled, and in the SMP case, - * it must synchronize the delayed page table writes properly on other CPUs. + * up to date. + * + * In the general case, no lock is guaranteed to be held between entry and exit + * of the lazy mode. So the implementation must assume preemption may be enabled + * and cpu migration is possible; it must take steps to be robust against this. + * (In practice, for user PTE updates, the appropriate page table lock(s) are + * held, but for kernel PTE updates, no lock is held). Nesting is not permitted + * and the mode cannot be used in interrupt context. */ #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_ENTER_LAZY_MMU_MODE #define arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() do {} while (0) @@ -287,7 +291,6 @@ static inline void set_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, { page_table_check_ptes_set(mm, ptep, pte, nr); - arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode(); for (;;) { set_pte(ptep, pte); if (--nr == 0) @@ -295,7 +298,6 @@ static inline void set_ptes(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, ptep++; pte = pte_next_pfn(pte); } - arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode(); } #endif #define set_pte_at(mm, addr, ptep, pte) set_ptes(mm, addr, ptep, pte, 1) @@ -1508,15 +1510,26 @@ static inline void track_pfn_insert(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t *prot, } /* - * track_pfn_copy is called when vma that is covering the pfnmap gets - * copied through copy_page_range(). + * track_pfn_copy is called when a VM_PFNMAP VMA is about to get the page + * tables copied during copy_page_range(). On success, stores the pfn to be + * passed to untrack_pfn_copy(). */ -static inline int track_pfn_copy(struct vm_area_struct *vma) +static inline int track_pfn_copy(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, + struct vm_area_struct *src_vma, unsigned long *pfn) { return 0; } /* + * untrack_pfn_copy is called when a VM_PFNMAP VMA failed to copy during + * copy_page_range(), but after track_pfn_copy() was already called. + */ +static inline void untrack_pfn_copy(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, + unsigned long pfn) +{ +} + +/* * untrack_pfn is called while unmapping a pfnmap for a region. * untrack can be called for a specific region indicated by pfn and size or * can be for the entire vma (in which case pfn, size are zero). @@ -1528,8 +1541,10 @@ static inline void untrack_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, } /* - * untrack_pfn_clear is called while mremapping a pfnmap for a new region - * or fails to copy pgtable during duplicate vm area. + * untrack_pfn_clear is called in the following cases on a VM_PFNMAP VMA: + * + * 1) During mremap() on the src VMA after the page tables were moved. + * 2) During fork() on the dst VMA, immediately after duplicating the src VMA. */ static inline void untrack_pfn_clear(struct vm_area_struct *vma) { @@ -1540,7 +1555,10 @@ extern int track_pfn_remap(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t *prot, unsigned long size); extern void track_pfn_insert(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t *prot, pfn_t pfn); -extern int track_pfn_copy(struct vm_area_struct *vma); +extern int track_pfn_copy(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, + struct vm_area_struct *src_vma, unsigned long *pfn); +extern void untrack_pfn_copy(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, + unsigned long pfn); extern void untrack_pfn(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long pfn, unsigned long size, bool mm_wr_locked); extern void untrack_pfn_clear(struct vm_area_struct *vma); |