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This patch adds an API for doing read-modify-write updates to a pte's protection bits which may race against hardware updates to the pte. After reading the pte, the hardware may asynchonously set the accessed or dirty bits on a pte, which would be lost when writing back the modified pte value. The existing technique to handle this race is to use ptep_get_and_clear() atomically fetch the old pte value and clear it in memory. This has the effect of marking the pte as non-present, which will prevent the hardware from updating its state. When the new value is written back, the pte will be present again, and the hardware can resume updating the access/dirty flags. When running in a virtualized environment, pagetable updates are relatively expensive, since they generally involve some trap into the hypervisor. To mitigate the cost of these updates, we tend to batch them. However, because of the atomic nature of ptep_get_and_clear(), it is inherently non-batchable. This new interface allows batching by giving the underlying implementation enough information to open a transaction between the read and write phases: ptep_modify_prot_start() returns the current pte value, and puts the pte entry into a state where either the hardware will not update the pte, or if it does, the updates will be preserved on commit. ptep_modify_prot_commit() writes back the updated pte, makes sure that any hardware updates made since ptep_modify_prot_start() are preserved. ptep_modify_prot_start() and _commit() must be exactly paired, and used while holding the appropriate pte lock. They do not protect against other software updates of the pte in any way. The current implementations of ptep_modify_prot_start and _commit are functionally unchanged from before: _start() uses ptep_get_and_clear() fetch the pte and zero the entry, preventing any hardware updates. _commit() simply writes the new pte value back knowing that the hardware has not updated the pte in the meantime. The only current user of this interface is mprotect Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> |
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| bitops | ||
| 4level-fixup.h | ||
| atomic.h | ||
| audit_change_attr.h | ||
| audit_dir_write.h | ||
| audit_read.h | ||
| audit_signal.h | ||
| audit_write.h | ||
| bitops.h | ||
| bug.h | ||
| cmpxchg-local.h | ||
| cmpxchg.h | ||
| cputime.h | ||
| device.h | ||
| div64.h | ||
| dma-mapping-broken.h | ||
| dma-mapping.h | ||
| emergency-restart.h | ||
| errno-base.h | ||
| errno.h | ||
| fcntl.h | ||
| futex.h | ||
| gpio.h | ||
| ide_iops.h | ||
| int-l64.h | ||
| int-ll64.h | ||
| ioctl.h | ||
| iomap.h | ||
| irq_regs.h | ||
| Kbuild | ||
| Kbuild.asm | ||
| kdebug.h | ||
| libata-portmap.h | ||
| local.h | ||
| memory_model.h | ||
| mm_hooks.h | ||
| mman.h | ||
| mutex-dec.h | ||
| mutex-null.h | ||
| mutex-xchg.h | ||
| page.h | ||
| pci-dma-compat.h | ||
| pci.h | ||
| percpu.h | ||
| pgtable-nopmd.h | ||
| pgtable-nopud.h | ||
| pgtable.h | ||
| poll.h | ||
| resource.h | ||
| rtc.h | ||
| sections.h | ||
| siginfo.h | ||
| signal.h | ||
| statfs.h | ||
| termios.h | ||
| tlb.h | ||
| topology.h | ||
| uaccess.h | ||
| vmlinux.lds.h | ||
| xor.h | ||