x86/mm: provide pmdp_establish() helper

We need an atomic way to setup pmd page table entry, avoiding races with
CPU setting dirty/accessed bits.  This is required to implement
pmdp_invalidate() that doesn't lose these bits.

On PAE we can avoid expensive cmpxchg8b for cases when new page table
entry is not present.  If it's present, fallback to cpmxchg loop.

[[email protected]: add missing `do' to do-while loop]
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <[email protected]>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]>
Cc: Vlastimil Babka <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <[email protected]>
Cc: Michal Hocko <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

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