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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-04-28 05:13:00 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-04-28 11:58:23 -0400
commit7e675137a8e1a4d45822746456dd389b65745bf6 (patch)
tree5df01d23ea1b6b212d18f2136ff82913fcbe7718 /include/asm-avr32
parentb379d790197cdf8a95fb67507d75a24ac0a1678d (diff)
mm: introduce pte_special pte bit
s390 for one, cannot implement VM_MIXEDMAP with pfn_valid, due to their memory model (which is more dynamic than most). Instead, they had proposed to implement it with an additional path through vm_normal_page(), using a bit in the pte to determine whether or not the page should be refcounted: vm_normal_page() { ... if (unlikely(vma->vm_flags & (VM_PFNMAP|VM_MIXEDMAP))) { if (vma->vm_flags & VM_MIXEDMAP) { #ifdef s390 if (!mixedmap_refcount_pte(pte)) return NULL; #else if (!pfn_valid(pfn)) return NULL; #endif goto out; } ... } This is fine, however if we are allowed to use a bit in the pte to determine refcountedness, we can use that to _completely_ replace all the vma based schemes. So instead of adding more cases to the already complex vma-based scheme, we can have a clearly seperate and simple pte-based scheme (and get slightly better code generation in the process): vm_normal_page() { #ifdef s390 if (!mixedmap_refcount_pte(pte)) return NULL; return pte_page(pte); #else ... #endif } And finally, we may rather make this concept usable by any architecture rather than making it s390 only, so implement a new type of pte state for this. Unfortunately the old vma based code must stay, because some architectures may not be able to spare pte bits. This makes vm_normal_page a little bit more ugly than we would like, but the 2 cases are clearly seperate. So introduce a pte_special pte state, and use it in mm/memory.c. It is currently a noop for all architectures, so this doesn't actually result in any compiled code changes to mm/memory.o. BTW: I haven't put vm_normal_page() into arch code as-per an earlier suggestion. The reason is that, regardless of where vm_normal_page is actually implemented, the *abstraction* is still exactly the same. Also, while it depends on whether the architecture has pte_special or not, that is the only two possible cases, and it really isn't an arch specific function -- the role of the arch code should be to provide primitive functions and accessors with which to build the core code; pte_special does that. We do not want architectures to know or care about vm_normal_page itself, and we definitely don't want them being able to invent something new there out of sight of mm/ code. If we made vm_normal_page an arch function, then we have to make vm_insert_mixed (next patch) an arch function too. So I don't think moving it to arch code fundamentally improves any abstractions, while it does practically make the code more difficult to follow, for both mm and arch developers, and easier to misuse. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Acked-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Cc: Jared Hulbert <jaredeh@gmail.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-avr32')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-avr32/pgtable.h8
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-avr32/pgtable.h b/include/asm-avr32/pgtable.h
index 3ae7b548fce7..c0e5e29417df 100644
--- a/include/asm-avr32/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-avr32/pgtable.h
@@ -212,6 +212,10 @@ static inline int pte_young(pte_t pte)
212{ 212{
213 return pte_val(pte) & _PAGE_ACCESSED; 213 return pte_val(pte) & _PAGE_ACCESSED;
214} 214}
215static inline int pte_special(pte_t pte)
216{
217 return 0;
218}
215 219
216/* 220/*
217 * The following only work if pte_present() is not true. 221 * The following only work if pte_present() is not true.
@@ -252,6 +256,10 @@ static inline pte_t pte_mkyoung(pte_t pte)
252 set_pte(&pte, __pte(pte_val(pte) | _PAGE_ACCESSED)); 256 set_pte(&pte, __pte(pte_val(pte) | _PAGE_ACCESSED));
253 return pte; 257 return pte;
254} 258}
259static inline pte_t pte_mkspecial(pte_t pte)
260{
261 return pte;
262}
255 263
256#define pmd_none(x) (!pmd_val(x)) 264#define pmd_none(x) (!pmd_val(x))
257#define pmd_present(x) (pmd_val(x) & _PAGE_PRESENT) 265#define pmd_present(x) (pmd_val(x) & _PAGE_PRESENT)