x86/pvops: replace arch_enter_lazy_cpu_mode with arch_start_context_switch

Impact: simplification, prepare for later changes

Make lazy cpu mode more specific to context switching, so that
it makes sense to do more context-switch specific things in
the callbacks.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>

1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 8e6d0ca70aba..922f03671dd8 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -280,17 +280,18 @@ static inline void ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct mm_struct *mm,
 #endif
 
 /*
- * A facility to provide batching of the reload of page tables with the
- * actual context switch code for paravirtualized guests.  By convention,
- * only one of the lazy modes (CPU, MMU) should be active at any given
- * time, entry should never be nested, and entry and exits should always
- * be paired.  This is for sanity of maintaining and reasoning about the
- * kernel code.
+ * A facility to provide batching of the reload of page tables and
+ * other process state with the actual context switch code for
+ * paravirtualized guests.  By convention, only one of the batched
+ * update (lazy) modes (CPU, MMU) should be active at any given time,
+ * entry should never be nested, and entry and exits should always be
+ * paired.  This is for sanity of maintaining and reasoning about the
+ * kernel code.  In this case, the exit (end of the context switch) is
+ * in architecture-specific code, and so doesn't need a generic
+ * definition.
  */
-#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_ENTER_LAZY_CPU_MODE
-#define arch_enter_lazy_cpu_mode()      do {} while (0)
-#define arch_leave_lazy_cpu_mode()      do {} while (0)
-#define arch_flush_lazy_cpu_mode()      do {} while (0)
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_START_CONTEXT_SWITCH
+#define arch_start_context_switch()     do {} while (0)
 #endif
 
 #ifndef __HAVE_PFNMAP_TRACKING