linux-kernel - [PATCH v7 1/4] MIPS: Do not flush tlb page when updating PTE entry

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Date:   Wed, 27 May 2020 10:25:17 +0800
From:   Bibo Mao <maobibo@...ngson.cn>
To:     Thomas Bogendoerfer <tsbogend@...ha.franken.de>,
        Jiaxun Yang <jiaxun.yang@...goat.com>,
        Huacai Chen <chenhc@...ote.com>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Paul Burton <paulburton@...nel.org>,
        Dmitry Korotin <dkorotin@...ecomp.com>,
        Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <f4bug@...at.org>,
        Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>,
        Steven Price <steven.price@....com>,
        Anshuman Khandual <anshuman.khandual@....com>
Cc:     linux-mips@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Sergei Shtylyov <sergei.shtylyov@...entembedded.com>,
        "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@....com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH v7 1/4] MIPS: Do not flush tlb page when updating PTE entry

It is not necessary to flush tlb page on all CPUs if suitable PTE
entry exists already during page fault handling, just updating
TLB is fine.

Here redefine flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault as empty on MIPS system.

Signed-off-by: Bibo Mao <maobibo@...ngson.cn>
---
 arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h
index 9b01d2d..f8f48fc 100644
--- a/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -478,6 +478,11 @@ static inline pgprot_t pgprot_writecombine(pgprot_t _prot)
 	return __pgprot(prot);
 }
 
+static inline void flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+						unsigned long address)
+{
+}
+
 /*
  * Conversion functions: convert a page and protection to a page entry,
  * and a page entry and page directory to the page they refer to.
-- 
1.8.3.1