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| -rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 20 |
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h index 78740716c9e..56627fa453a 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h @@ -171,6 +171,26 @@ static inline void ptep_set_wrprotect(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addres #endif /* + * A facility to provide lazy MMU batching. This allows PTE updates and + * page invalidations to be delayed until a call to leave lazy MMU mode + * is issued. Some architectures may benefit from doing this, and it is + * beneficial for both shadow and direct mode hypervisors, which may batch + * the PTE updates which happen during this window. Note that using this + * interface requires that read hazards be removed from the code. A read + * hazard could result in the direct mode hypervisor case, since the actual + * write to the page tables may not yet have taken place, so reads though + * a raw PTE pointer after it has been modified are not guaranteed to be + * up to date. This mode can only be entered and left under the protection of + * the page table locks for all page tables which may be modified. In the UP + * case, this is required so that preemption is disabled, and in the SMP case, + * it must synchronize the delayed page table writes properly on other CPUs. + */ +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_ENTER_LAZY_MMU_MODE +#define arch_enter_lazy_mmu_mode() do {} while (0) +#define arch_leave_lazy_mmu_mode() do {} while (0) +#endif + +/* * When walking page tables, get the address of the next boundary, * or the end address of the range if that comes earlier. Although no * vma end wraps to 0, rounded up __boundary may wrap to 0 throughout. |