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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-04-28 02:13:00 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-28 08:58:23 -0700
commit7e675137a8e1a4d45822746456dd389b65745bf6 (patch)
tree5df01d23ea1b6b212d18f2136ff82913fcbe7718 /include/asm-alpha
parentb379d790197cdf8a95fb67507d75a24ac0a1678d (diff)
mm: introduce pte_special pte bit
s390 for one, cannot implement VM_MIXEDMAP with pfn_valid, due to their memory model (which is more dynamic than most). Instead, they had proposed to implement it with an additional path through vm_normal_page(), using a bit in the pte to determine whether or not the page should be refcounted: vm_normal_page() { ... if (unlikely(vma->vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP|VM_MIXEDMAP))) { if (vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP) { #ifdef s390 if (!mixedmap_refcount_pte(pte)) return NULL; #else if (!pfn_valid(pfn)) return NULL; #endif goto out; } ... } This is fine, however if we are allowed to use a bit in the pte to determine refcountedness, we can use that to _completely_ replace all the vma based schemes. So instead of adding more cases to the already complex vma-based scheme, we can have a clearly seperate and simple pte-based scheme (and get slightly better code generation in the process): vm_normal_page() { #ifdef s390 if (!mixedmap_refcount_pte(pte)) return NULL; return pte_page(pte); #else ... #endif } And finally, we may rather make this concept usable by any architecture rather than making it s390 only, so implement a new type of pte state for this. Unfortunately the old vma based code must stay, because some architectures may not be able to spare pte bits. This makes vm_normal_page a little bit more ugly than we would like, but the 2 cases are clearly seperate. So introduce a pte_special pte state, and use it in mm/memory.c. It is currently a noop for all architectures, so this doesn't actually result in any compiled code changes to mm/memory.o. BTW: I haven't put vm_normal_page() into arch code as-per an earlier suggestion. The reason is that, regardless of where vm_normal_page is actually implemented, the *abstraction* is still exactly the same. Also, while it depends on whether the architecture has pte_special or not, that is the only two possible cases, and it really isn't an arch specific function -- the role of the arch code should be to provide primitive functions and accessors with which to build the core code; pte_special does that. We do not want architectures to know or care about vm_normal_page itself, and we definitely don't want them being able to invent something new there out of sight of mm/ code. If we made vm_normal_page an arch function, then we have to make vm_insert_mixed (next patch) an arch function too. So I don't think moving it to arch code fundamentally improves any abstractions, while it does practically make the code more difficult to follow, for both mm and arch developers, and easier to misuse. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-alpha')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-alpha/pgtable.h2
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-alpha/pgtable.h b/include/asm-alpha/pgtable.h
index 99037b03235..05ce5fba43e 100644
--- a/include/asm-alpha/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-alpha/pgtable.h
@@ -268,6 +268,7 @@ extern inline int pte_write(pte_t pte) { return !(pte_val(pte) & _PAGE_FOW); }
extern inline int pte_dirty(pte_t pte) { return pte_val(pte) & _PAGE_DIRTY; }
extern inline int pte_young(pte_t pte) { return pte_val(pte) & _PAGE_ACCESSED; }
extern inline int pte_file(pte_t pte) { return pte_val(pte) & _PAGE_FILE; }
+extern inline int pte_special(pte_t pte) { return 0; }
extern inline pte_t pte_wrprotect(pte_t pte) { pte_val(pte) |= _PAGE_FOW; return pte; }
extern inline pte_t pte_mkclean(pte_t pte) { pte_val(pte) &= ~(__DIRTY_BITS); return pte; }
@@ -275,6 +276,7 @@ extern inline pte_t pte_mkold(pte_t pte) { pte_val(pte) &= ~(__ACCESS_BITS); ret
extern inline pte_t pte_mkwrite(pte_t pte) { pte_val(pte) &= ~_PAGE_FOW; return pte; }
extern inline pte_t pte_mkdirty(pte_t pte) { pte_val(pte) |= __DIRTY_BITS; return pte; }
extern inline pte_t pte_mkyoung(pte_t pte) { pte_val(pte) |= __ACCESS_BITS; return pte; }
+extern inline pte_t pte_mkspecial(pte_t pte) { return pte; }
#define PAGE_DIR_OFFSET(tsk,address) pgd_offset((tsk),(address))