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authorZachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>2006-09-30 23:29:35 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-10-01 00:39:34 -0700
commit23002d88be309a7c78db69363c9d933a29a3b0bb (patch)
treeecd99ef70c0f38ff81bf2e3c6d7caeed2b88b41e /include/pcmcia
parent25e4df5bae333a06cd2c9b88baf14432652dc9f7 (diff)
[PATCH] paravirt: kpte flush
Create a new PTE function which combines clearing a kernel PTE with the subsequent flush. This allows the two to be easily combined into a single hypercall or paravirt-op. More subtly, reverse the order of the flush for kmap_atomic. Instead of flushing on establishing a mapping, flush on clearing a mapping. This eliminates the possibility of leaving stale kmap entries which may still have valid TLB mappings. This is required for direct mode hypervisors, which need to reprotect all mappings of a given page when changing the page type from a normal page to a protected page (such as a page table or descriptor table page). But it also provides some nicer semantics for real hardware, by providing extra debug-proofing against using stale mappings, as well as ensuring that no stale mappings exist when changing the cacheability attributes of a page, which could lead to cache conflicts when two different types of mappings exist for the same page. 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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