x86/mm: Introduce pte_accessible()
We need pte_present to return true for _PAGE_PROTNONE pages, to indicate that
the pte is associated with a page.
However, for TLB flushing purposes, we would like to know whether the pte
points to an actually accessible page. This allows us to skip remote TLB
flushes for pages that are not actually accessible.
Fill in this method for x86 and provide a safe (but slower) method
on other architectures.
Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Fixed-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
[ Added Linus's review fixes. ]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]>
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index b36ce40..48fc1dc 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -219,6 +219,10 @@
#define move_pte(pte, prot, old_addr, new_addr) (pte)
#endif
+#ifndef pte_accessible
+# define pte_accessible(pte) ((void)(pte),1)
+#endif
+
#ifndef flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault
#define flush_tlb_fix_spurious_fault(vma, address) flush_tlb_page(vma, address)
#endif
