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x86/mm: provide pmdp_establish() helper
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Fri, 14 Jun 2019 08:55:05 +0000 (10:55 +0200)
committerKleber Sacilotto de Souza <kleber.souza@canonical.com>
Tue, 2 Jul 2019 12:18:49 +0000 (14:18 +0200)
commit8f79a13045f06bbbee0eb2f6c4246ad13b1191b8
treeea29bd2ac6cc66e1e384c812d62a6f76aba9cf76
parent2fd2a5759a2944bdd0e68d5984f44fe471382aa1
x86/mm: provide pmdp_establish() helper

BugLink: https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1830433
We need an atomic way to setup pmd page table entry, avoiding races with
CPU setting dirty/accessed bits.  This is required to implement
pmdp_invalidate() that doesn't lose these bits.

On PAE we can avoid expensive cmpxchg8b for cases when new page table
entry is not present.  If it's present, fallback to cpmxchg loop.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add missing `do' to do-while loop]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20171213105756.69879-10-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@suse.cz>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Cc: Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
(cherry picked from commit 86fa949b050184ffc53688516a6a83ae5f98d08a)
Tested-by: Connor Kuehl <connor.kuehl@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrea Righi <andrea.righi@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Stefan Bader <stefan.bader@canonical.com>
Acked-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@canonical.com>
Signed-off-by: Khalid Elmously <khalid.elmously@canonical.com>
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable-3level.h
arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h