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| author | Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> | 2006-10-01 08:29:33 +0200 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org> | 2006-10-01 09:39:33 +0200 |
| commit | 6606c3e0da5360799e07ae24b05080cc85c68e72 (patch) | |
| tree | 5072acfc3b36e48ec84fe28805d160cbc9b28900 /init | |
| parent | [PATCH] paravirt: pte clear not present (diff) | |
| download | linux-6606c3e0da5360799e07ae24b05080cc85c68e72.tar.xz linux-6606c3e0da5360799e07ae24b05080cc85c68e72.zip | |
[PATCH] paravirt: lazy mmu mode hooks.patch
Implement lazy MMU update hooks which are SMP safe for both direct and shadow
page tables. The idea is that PTE updates and page invalidations while in
lazy mode can be batched into a single hypercall. We use this in VMI for
shadow page table synchronization, and it is a win. It also can be used by
PPC and for direct page tables on Xen.
For SMP, the enter / leave must happen under protection of the page table
locks for page tables which are being modified. This is because otherwise,
you end up with stale state in the batched hypercall, which other CPUs can
race ahead of. Doing this under the protection of the locks guarantees the
synchronization is correct, and also means that spurious faults which are
generated during this window by remote CPUs are properly handled, as the page
fault handler must re-check the PTE under protection of the same lock.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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