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author | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2012-11-20 13:02:51 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> | 2012-11-22 21:52:06 +0100 |
commit | 5e4bf1a55da976a5ed60901bb8801f1024ef9774 (patch) | |
tree | 346592b44148c59b4c7287877295df36ae402680 /lib/debugobjects.c | |
parent | bbee3aec3472fc2ca10b6b1020aec84567ea25ce (diff) |
x86/mm: Don't flush the TLB on #WP pmd fixups
If we have a write protection #PF and fix up the pmd then the
hugetlb code [the only user of pmdp_set_access_flags], in its
do_huge_pmd_wp_page() page fault resolution function calls
pmdp_set_access_flags() to mark the pmd permissive again,
and flushes the TLB.
This TLB flush is unnecessary: a flush on #PF is guaranteed on
most (all?) x86 CPUs, and even in the worst-case we'll generate
a spurious fault.
So remove it.
Cc: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Cc: Paul Turner <[email protected]>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <[email protected]>
Cc: Mel Gorman <[email protected]>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
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