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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2007-05-02 19:27:15 +0200
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>2007-05-02 19:27:15 +0200
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[PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: add kmap_atomic_pte for mapping highpte pages
Xen and VMI both have special requirements when mapping a highmem pte page into the kernel address space. These can be dealt with by adding a new kmap_atomic_pte() function for mapping highptes, and hooking it into the paravirt_ops infrastructure. Xen specifically wants to map the pte page RO, so this patch exposes a helper function, kmap_atomic_prot, which maps the page with the specified page protections. This also adds a kmap_flush_unused() function to clear out the cached kmap mappings. Xen needs this to clear out any potential stray RW mappings of pages which will become part of a pagetable. [ Zach - vmi.c will need some attention after this patch. It wasn't immediately obvious to me what needs to be done. ] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
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diff --git a/mm/highmem.c b/mm/highmem.c
index 51e1c1995fec..be8f8d36a8b9 100644
--- a/mm/highmem.c
+++ b/mm/highmem.c
@@ -99,6 +99,15 @@ static void flush_all_zero_pkmaps(void)
flush_tlb_kernel_range(PKMAP_ADDR(0), PKMAP_ADDR(LAST_PKMAP));
}
+/* Flush all unused kmap mappings in order to remove stray
+ mappings. */
+void kmap_flush_unused(void)
+{
+ spin_lock(&kmap_lock);
+ flush_all_zero_pkmaps();
+ spin_unlock(&kmap_lock);
+}
+
static inline unsigned long map_new_virtual(struct page *page)
{
unsigned long vaddr;