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x86, pat: separate the pfn attribute tracking for remap_pfn_range and vm_insert_pfn
authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:19:03 +0000 (10:19 +1000)
committerStephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Fri, 28 Sep 2012 06:06:42 +0000 (16:06 +1000)
commit044b36f2f947b63ce41239558dba440128cb9743
tree15390933f5d18ed9f989c063647cb6cdd48c77f0
parentfb03c0b9cbeccd987e818ec7e25d1847c642f1e2
x86, pat: separate the pfn attribute tracking for remap_pfn_range and vm_insert_pfn

With PAT enabled, vm_insert_pfn() looks up the existing pfn memory
attribute and uses it.  Expectation is that the driver reserves the memory
attributes for the pfn before calling vm_insert_pfn().

remap_pfn_range() (when called for the whole vma) will setup a new
attribute (based on the prot argument) for the specified pfn range.  This
addresses the legacy usage which typically calls remap_pfn_range() with a
desired memory attribute.  For ranges smaller than the vma size (which is
typically not the case), remap_pfn_range() will use the existing memory
attribute for the pfn range.

Expose two different API's for these different behaviors.
track_pfn_insert() for tracking the pfn attribute set by vm_insert_pfn()
and track_pfn_remap() for the remap_pfn_range().

This cleanup also prepares the ground for the track/untrack pfn vma routines
to take over the ownership of setting PAT specific vm_flag in the 'vma'.

[khlebnikov@openvz.org: Clear checks in track_pfn_remap()]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/mm/pat.c
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
mm/memory.c