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-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/pgtable.h17
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index dc8f99ee305..7d7bcf990e9 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -27,13 +27,20 @@ do { \
* Largely same as above, but only sets the access flags (dirty,
* accessed, and writable). Furthermore, we know it always gets set
* to a "more permissive" setting, which allows most architectures
- * to optimize this.
+ * to optimize this. We return whether the PTE actually changed, which
+ * in turn instructs the caller to do things like update__mmu_cache.
+ * This used to be done in the caller, but sparc needs minor faults to
+ * force that call on sun4c so we changed this macro slightly
*/
#define ptep_set_access_flags(__vma, __address, __ptep, __entry, __dirty) \
-do { \
- set_pte_at((__vma)->vm_mm, (__address), __ptep, __entry); \
- flush_tlb_page(__vma, __address); \
-} while (0)
+({ \
+ int __changed = !pte_same(*(__ptep), __entry); \
+ if (__changed) { \
+ set_pte_at((__vma)->vm_mm, (__address), __ptep, __entry); \
+ flush_tlb_page(__vma, __address); \
+ } \
+ __changed; \
+})
#endif
#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_TEST_AND_CLEAR_YOUNG