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Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux/pgtable.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/linux/pgtable.h | 23 |
1 files changed, 14 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/pgtable.h b/include/linux/pgtable.h index 4c107e17c547..b50447ef1c92 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) @@ -1509,8 +1511,9 @@ static inline void track_pfn_insert(struct vm_area_struct *vma, pgprot_t *prot, /* * 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(). + * tables copied during copy_page_range(). Will store the pfn to be + * passed to untrack_pfn_copy() only if there is something to be untracked. + * Callers should initialize the pfn to 0. */ static inline int track_pfn_copy(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, struct vm_area_struct *src_vma, unsigned long *pfn) @@ -1520,7 +1523,9 @@ static inline int track_pfn_copy(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, /* * 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. + * copy_page_range(), but after track_pfn_copy() was already called. Can + * be called even if track_pfn_copy() did not actually track anything: + * handled internally. */ static inline void untrack_pfn_copy(struct vm_area_struct *dst_vma, unsigned long pfn) |