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authorZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>2006-09-30 23:29:36 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-01 00:39:34 -0700
commitd6d861e3c963b4077c83e078e3e300c4b81f93e7 (patch)
tree842071ac905575aa0ea8bedd3a1ac5db29416bcf /include/asm-i386/i387.h
parent23002d88be309a7c78db69363c9d933a29a3b0bb (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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