Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6

1 files changed, 20 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-i386/pgtable-3level.h b/include/asm-i386/pgtable-3level.h
index 36a5aa63cbbf..dccb1b3337ad 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/pgtable-3level.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/pgtable-3level.h
@@ -85,6 +85,26 @@ static inline void pud_clear (pud_t * pud) { }
 #define pmd_offset(pud, address) ((pmd_t *) pud_page(*(pud)) + \
                         pmd_index(address))
 
+/*
+ * For PTEs and PDEs, we must clear the P-bit first when clearing a page table
+ * entry, so clear the bottom half first and enforce ordering with a compiler
+ * barrier.
+ */
+static inline void pte_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
+{
+        ptep->pte_low = 0;
+        smp_wmb();
+        ptep->pte_high = 0;
+}
+
+static inline void pmd_clear(pmd_t *pmd)
+{
+        u32 *tmp = (u32 *)pmd;
+        *tmp = 0;
+        smp_wmb();
+        *(tmp + 1) = 0;
+}
+
 static inline pte_t ptep_get_and_clear(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
 {
         pte_t res;