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authorAndrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>2011-01-13 15:46:41 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2011-01-13 17:32:40 -0800
commitdb3eb96f4e6281b84dd33c8980dacc27f2efe177 (patch)
tree0746ed213778d8cb9ec18c1c7c16490c233d178b /security
parente2cda322648122dc400c85ada80eaddbc612ef6a (diff)
thp: add pmd mangling functions to x86
Add needed pmd mangling functions with symmetry with their pte counterparts. pmdp_splitting_flush() is the only new addition on the pmd_ methods and it's needed to serialize the VM against split_huge_page. It simply atomically sets the splitting bit in a similar way pmdp_clear_flush_young atomically clears the accessed bit. pmdp_splitting_flush() also has to flush the tlb to make it effective against gup_fast, but it wouldn't really require to flush the tlb too. Just the tlb flush is the simplest operation we can invoke to serialize pmdp_splitting_flush() against gup_fast. Signed-off-by: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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