linux-kernel - [PATCHv3 01/11] asm-generic: Provide generic_pmdp

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Message-Id: <20170912153941.47012-2-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Date:   Tue, 12 Sep 2017 18:39:31 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Vlastimil Babka <vbabka@...e.cz>,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
        Russell King <linux@...linux.org.uk>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        "David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        "Aneesh Kumar K . V" <aneesh.kumar@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
Subject: [PATCHv3 01/11] asm-generic: Provide generic_pmdp_establish()

This is implementation of pmdp_establish() that is only suitable for an
architecture that doesn't have hardware dirty/accessed bits. In this
case we can't race with CPU which sets these bits and non-atomic
approach is fine.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>
---
 include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 15 +++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 8e0243036564..bf0889eb774d 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -308,6 +308,21 @@ extern void pgtable_trans_huge_deposit(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmdp,
 extern pgtable_t pgtable_trans_huge_withdraw(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmdp);
 #endif
 
+#ifdef CONFIG_TRANSPARENT_HUGEPAGE
+/*
+ * This is implementation of pmdp_establish() that is only suitable for an
+ * architecture that doesn't have hardware dirty/accessed bits. In this case we
+ * can't race with CPU which sets these bits and non-atomic aproach is fine.
+ */
+static inline pmd_t generic_pmdp_establish(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+		unsigned long address, pmd_t *pmdp, pmd_t pmd)
+{
+	pmd_t old_pmd = *pmdp;
+	set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, pmd);
+	return old_pmd;
+}
+#endif
+
 #ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PMDP_INVALIDATE
 extern void pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
 			    pmd_t *pmdp);
-- 
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