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-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c10
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c8
2 files changed, 11 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
index 931930a9616..a718e0d2350 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c
@@ -919,13 +919,11 @@ static int change_page_attr_set_clr(unsigned long *addr, int numpages,
/*
* On success we use clflush, when the CPU supports it to
- * avoid the wbindv. If the CPU does not support it, in the
- * error case, and during early boot (for EFI) we fall back
- * to cpa_flush_all (which uses wbinvd):
+ * avoid the wbindv. If the CPU does not support it and in the
+ * error case we fall back to cpa_flush_all (which uses
+ * wbindv):
*/
- if (early_boot_irqs_disabled)
- __cpa_flush_all((void *)(long)cache);
- else if (!ret && cpu_has_clflush) {
+ if (!ret && cpu_has_clflush) {
if (cpa.flags & (CPA_PAGES_ARRAY | CPA_ARRAY)) {
cpa_flush_array(addr, numpages, cache,
cpa.flags, pages);
diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index 217eb705fac..e27fbf887f3 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
@@ -301,6 +301,13 @@ void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
free_page((unsigned long)pgd);
}
+/*
+ * Used to set accessed or dirty bits in the page table entries
+ * on other architectures. On x86, the accessed and dirty bits
+ * are tracked by hardware. However, do_wp_page calls this function
+ * to also make the pte writeable at the same time the dirty bit is
+ * set. In that case we do actually need to write the PTE.
+ */
int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep,
pte_t entry, int dirty)
@@ -310,7 +317,6 @@ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (changed && dirty) {
*ptep = entry;
pte_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, address, ptep);
- flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
}
return changed;