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x86: cpa: simplify locking
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further simplify cpa locking: since the largepage-split is a
slowpath, use the pgd_lock for the whole operation, intead
of the mmap_sem.

This also makes it suitable for DEBUG_PAGEALLOC purposes again.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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Ingo Molnar committed Jan 30, 2008
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12 changes: 5 additions & 7 deletions arch/x86/mm/pageattr_32.c
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Expand Up @@ -37,17 +37,15 @@ pte_t *lookup_address(unsigned long address, int *level)
return pte_offset_kernel(pmd, address);
}

static void set_pmd_pte(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address, pte_t pte)
static void __set_pmd_pte(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address, pte_t pte)
{
unsigned long flags;
struct page *page;

/* change init_mm */
set_pte_atomic(kpte, pte);
if (SHARED_KERNEL_PMD)
return;

spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags);
for (page = pgd_list; page; page = (struct page *)page->index) {
pgd_t *pgd;
pud_t *pud;
Expand All @@ -58,12 +56,12 @@ static void set_pmd_pte(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address, pte_t pte)
pmd = pmd_offset(pud, address);
set_pte_atomic((pte_t *)pmd, pte);
}
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags);
}

static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address)
{
pgprot_t ref_prot = pte_pgprot(pte_clrhuge(*kpte));
unsigned long flags;
unsigned long addr;
pte_t *pbase, *tmp;
struct page *base;
Expand All @@ -73,7 +71,7 @@ static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address)
if (!base)
return -ENOMEM;

down_write(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
spin_lock_irqsave(&pgd_lock, flags);
/*
* Check for races, another CPU might have split this page
* up for us already:
Expand All @@ -95,11 +93,11 @@ static int split_large_page(pte_t *kpte, unsigned long address)
/*
* Install the new, split up pagetable:
*/
set_pmd_pte(kpte, address, mk_pte(base, ref_prot));
__set_pmd_pte(kpte, address, mk_pte(base, ref_prot));
base = NULL;

out_unlock:
up_write(&init_mm.mmap_sem);
spin_unlock_irqrestore(&pgd_lock, flags);

if (base)
__free_pages(base, 0);
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