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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2008-04-02 13:54:10 -0400
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-04-24 17:57:33 -0400
commit2bd50036b5dfc929390ddc48be7f6314447b2be3 (patch)
tree638901ec17236c692273ce18e9160e7d29264a26 /arch/x86/xen
parent41e332b2a2dfe514cd441ed0ce1096ed1863e378 (diff)
xen: allow set_pte_at on init_mm to be lockless
The usual pagetable locking protocol doesn't seem to apply to updates to init_mm, so don't rely on preemption being disabled in xen_set_pte_at on init_mm. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/x86/xen')
-rw-r--r--arch/x86/xen/mmu.c12
1 files changed, 10 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
index 272635aaef88..6cbcf65609ad 100644
--- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
@@ -156,6 +156,10 @@ void set_pte_mfn(unsigned long vaddr, unsigned long mfn, pgprot_t flags)
156void xen_set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, 156void xen_set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
157 pte_t *ptep, pte_t pteval) 157 pte_t *ptep, pte_t pteval)
158{ 158{
159 /* updates to init_mm may be done without lock */
160 if (mm == &init_mm)
161 preempt_disable();
162
159 if (mm == current->mm || mm == &init_mm) { 163 if (mm == current->mm || mm == &init_mm) {
160 if (paravirt_get_lazy_mode() == PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU) { 164 if (paravirt_get_lazy_mode() == PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU) {
161 struct multicall_space mcs; 165 struct multicall_space mcs;
@@ -163,12 +167,16 @@ void xen_set_pte_at(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
163 167
164 MULTI_update_va_mapping(mcs.mc, addr, pteval, 0); 168 MULTI_update_va_mapping(mcs.mc, addr, pteval, 0);
165 xen_mc_issue(PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU); 169 xen_mc_issue(PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU);
166 return; 170 goto out;
167 } else 171 } else
168 if (HYPERVISOR_update_va_mapping(addr, pteval, 0) == 0) 172 if (HYPERVISOR_update_va_mapping(addr, pteval, 0) == 0)
169 return; 173 goto out;
170 } 174 }
171 xen_set_pte(ptep, pteval); 175 xen_set_pte(ptep, pteval);
176
177out:
178 if (mm == &init_mm)
179 preempt_enable();
172} 180}
173 181
174pteval_t xen_pte_val(pte_t pte) 182pteval_t xen_pte_val(pte_t pte)