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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-07-25 19:45:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-26 12:00:05 -0700
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x86: implement pte_special
Implement the pte_special bit for x86. This is required to support lockless get_user_pages, because we need to know whether or not we can refcount a particular page given only its pte (and no vma). [hugh@veritas.com: fix a BUG] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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