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authorMel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>2015-02-12 23:58:19 +0100
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2015-02-13 03:54:08 +0100
commite7bb4b6d1609cce391af1e7bc6f31d14f1a3a890 (patch)
treea6c5101e1b4cd9c9f0de605723b7c378b0c028d7 /include/asm-generic
parentmm: numa: do not dereference pmd outside of the lock during NUMA hinting fault (diff)
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mm: add p[te|md] protnone helpers for use by NUMA balancing
This is a preparatory patch that introduces protnone helpers for automatic NUMA balancing. Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Tested-by: Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Kirill Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/pgtable.h20
1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 129de9204d18..067922c06c29 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -673,6 +673,26 @@ static inline int pmd_trans_unstable(pmd_t *pmd)
#endif
}
+#ifndef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
+/*
+ * Technically a PTE can be PROTNONE even when not doing NUMA balancing but
+ * the only case the kernel cares is for NUMA balancing and is only ever set
+ * when the VMA is accessible. For PROT_NONE VMAs, the PTEs are not marked
+ * _PAGE_PROTNONE so by by default, implement the helper as "always no". It
+ * is the responsibility of the caller to distinguish between PROT_NONE
+ * protections and NUMA hinting fault protections.
+ */
+static inline int pte_protnone(pte_t pte)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+
+static inline int pmd_protnone(pmd_t pmd)
+{
+ return 0;
+}
+#endif /* CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING */
+
#ifdef CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING
/*
* _PAGE_NUMA distinguishes between an unmapped page table entry, an entry that