linux-kernel - [PATCH 07/10] x86, xen, mm: Do not need to check if page table is ioremap

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Message-Id: <1349757558-10856-8-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org>
Date:	Mon,  8 Oct 2012 21:39:15 -0700
From:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Jacob Shin <jacob.shin@....com>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>
Cc:	Stefano Stabellini <stefano.stabellini@...citrix.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>,
	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
Subject: [PATCH 07/10] x86, xen, mm: Do not need to check if page table is ioremap

All page table buf are pre-mapped, and could use _va to access them.

Remove the not needed checking.

Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@...cle.com>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
---
 arch/x86/xen/mmu.c |    8 ++------
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
index 7a769b7..9c0956c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -1412,13 +1412,9 @@ static pte_t __init mask_rw_pte(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
 
 	/*
 	 * If the new pfn is within the range of the newly allocated
-	 * kernel pagetable, and it isn't being mapped into an
-	 * early_ioremap fixmap slot as a freshly allocated page, make sure
-	 * it is RO.
+	 * kernel pagetable, make sure it is RO.
 	 */
-	if (((!is_early_ioremap_ptep(ptep) &&
-			pfn >= pgt_buf_start && pfn < pgt_buf_top)) ||
-			(is_early_ioremap_ptep(ptep) && pfn != (pgt_buf_end - 1)))
+	if (pfn >= pgt_buf_start && pfn < pgt_buf_top)
 		pte = pte_wrprotect(pte);
 
 	return pte;
-- 
1.7.7

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