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authorNick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>2008-07-25 19:45:20 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2008-07-26 12:00:05 -0700
commita0a8f5364a5ad248aec6cb705e0092ff563edc2f (patch)
treefe942b13adc527f66103d529c2ee91da05086d1c /include/asm-x86
parent2682497245e7d22160ae63032c378745a7f2cfe5 (diff)
x86: implement pte_special
Implement the pte_special bit for x86. This is required to support lockless get_user_pages, because we need to know whether or not we can refcount a particular page given only its pte (and no vma). [hugh@veritas.com: fix a BUG] Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-x86')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-x86/pgtable.h9
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h b/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h
index 3e5dbc4195f4..04caa2f544df 100644
--- a/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-x86/pgtable.h
@@ -18,6 +18,7 @@
#define _PAGE_BIT_UNUSED2 10
#define _PAGE_BIT_UNUSED3 11
#define _PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE 12 /* On 2MB or 1GB pages */
+#define _PAGE_BIT_SPECIAL _PAGE_BIT_UNUSED1
#define _PAGE_BIT_NX 63 /* No execute: only valid after cpuid check */
#define _PAGE_PRESENT (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_PRESENT)
@@ -34,6 +35,8 @@
#define _PAGE_UNUSED3 (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_UNUSED3)
#define _PAGE_PAT (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_PAT)
#define _PAGE_PAT_LARGE (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_PAT_LARGE)
+#define _PAGE_SPECIAL (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_SPECIAL)
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL
#if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) || defined(CONFIG_X86_PAE)
#define _PAGE_NX (_AT(pteval_t, 1) << _PAGE_BIT_NX)
@@ -54,7 +57,7 @@
/* Set of bits not changed in pte_modify */
#define _PAGE_CHG_MASK (PTE_PFN_MASK | _PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT | \
- _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY)
+ _PAGE_SPECIAL | _PAGE_ACCESSED | _PAGE_DIRTY)
#define _PAGE_CACHE_MASK (_PAGE_PCD | _PAGE_PWT)
#define _PAGE_CACHE_WB (0)
@@ -180,7 +183,7 @@ static inline int pte_exec(pte_t pte)
static inline int pte_special(pte_t pte)
{
- return 0;
+ return pte_val(pte) & _PAGE_SPECIAL;
}
static inline int pmd_large(pmd_t pte)
@@ -246,7 +249,7 @@ static inline pte_t pte_clrglobal(pte_t pte)
static inline pte_t pte_mkspecial(pte_t pte)
{
- return pte;
+ return __pte(pte_val(pte) | _PAGE_SPECIAL);
}
extern pteval_t __supported_pte_mask;