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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>2007-07-17 21:37:05 -0400
committerJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2007-07-18 11:47:43 -0400
commitf4f97b3ea90130520afb478cbc2918be2b6587b8 (patch)
tree1aeebe3230b4a7eef0630eec148927c1adf340a5 /arch/i386/xen/mmu.h
parentc85b04c3749507546f6d5868976e4793e35c2ec0 (diff)
xen: Complete pagetable pinning
Xen requires all active pagetables to be marked read-only. When the base of the pagetable is loaded into %cr3, the hypervisor validates the entire pagetable and only allows the load to proceed if it all checks out. This is pretty slow, so to mitigate this cost Xen has a notion of pinned pagetables. Pinned pagetables are pagetables which are considered to be active even if no processor's cr3 is pointing to is. This means that it must remain read-only and all updates are validated by the hypervisor. This makes context switches much cheaper, because the hypervisor doesn't need to revalidate the pagetable each time. This also adds a new paravirt hook which is called during setup once the zones and memory allocator have been initialized. When the init_mm pagetable is first built, the struct page array does not yet exist, and so there's nowhere to put he init_mm pagetable's PG_pinned flags. Once the zones are initialized and the struct page array exists, we can set the PG_pinned flags for those pages. This patch also adds the Xen support for pte pages allocated out of highmem (highpte) by implementing xen_kmap_atomic_pte. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/i386/xen/mmu.h')
-rw-r--r--arch/i386/xen/mmu.h2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/i386/xen/mmu.h b/arch/i386/xen/mmu.h
index 764eaaae0a2f..49776fe9f02a 100644
--- a/arch/i386/xen/mmu.h
+++ b/arch/i386/xen/mmu.h
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ void xen_dup_mmap(struct mm_struct *oldmm, struct mm_struct *mm);
15void xen_exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm); 15void xen_exit_mmap(struct mm_struct *mm);
16 16
17void xen_pgd_pin(pgd_t *pgd); 17void xen_pgd_pin(pgd_t *pgd);
18void xen_pgd_unpin(pgd_t *pgd); 18//void xen_pgd_unpin(pgd_t *pgd);
19 19
20#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE 20#ifdef CONFIG_X86_PAE
21unsigned long long xen_pte_val(pte_t); 21unsigned long long xen_pte_val(pte_t);