arm: mm: introduce special ptes for LPAE

We need a mechanism to tag ptes as being special, this indicates that no
attempt should be made to access the underlying struct page * associated
with the pte.  This is used by the fast_gup when operating on ptes as it
has no means to access VMAs (that also contain this information)
locklessly.

The L_PTE_SPECIAL bit is already allocated for LPAE, this patch modifies
pte_special and pte_mkspecial to make use of it, and defines
__HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL.

This patch also excludes special ptes from the icache/dcache sync logic.

Signed-off-by: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Cc: Christoffer Dall <christoffer.dall@linaro.org>
Cc: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
This commit is contained in:
Steve Capper
2014-10-09 15:29:16 -07:00
committed by Linus Torvalds
parent 2667f50e8b
commit bd951303be
3 changed files with 11 additions and 4 deletions

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@@ -182,6 +182,8 @@ static inline pmd_t *pmd_offset(pud_t *pud, unsigned long addr)
#define pmd_addr_end(addr,end) (end)
#define set_pte_ext(ptep,pte,ext) cpu_set_pte_ext(ptep,pte,ext)
#define pte_special(pte) (0)
static inline pte_t pte_mkspecial(pte_t pte) { return pte; }
/*
* We don't have huge page support for short descriptors, for the moment