From 23002d88be309a7c78db69363c9d933a29a3b0bb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Zachary Amsden Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 23:29:35 -0700 Subject: [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 Cc: Rusty Russell Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Cc: Andi Kleen Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/asm-i386/pgtable.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) (limited to 'include') diff --git a/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h b/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h index 94c87ff..ee9696d 100644 --- a/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h +++ b/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h @@ -441,6 +441,13 @@ extern pte_t *lookup_address(unsigned long address); #define pte_unmap_nested(pte) do { } while (0) #endif +/* Clear a kernel PTE and flush it from the TLB */ +#define kpte_clear_flush(ptep, vaddr) \ +do { \ + pte_clear(&init_mm, vaddr, ptep); \ + __flush_tlb_one(vaddr); \ +} while (0) + /* * The i386 doesn't have any external MMU info: the kernel page * tables contain all the necessary information. -- cgit v1.1