linux/arch/x86
Jeremy Fitzhardinge e57778a1e3 xen: implement ptep_modify_prot_start/commit
Xen has a pte update function which will update a pte while preserving
its accessed and dirty bits.  This means that ptep_modify_prot_start() can be
implemented as a simple read of the pte value.  The hardware may
update the pte in the meantime, but ptep_modify_prot_commit() updates it while
preserving any changes that may have happened in the meantime.

The updates in ptep_modify_prot_commit() are batched if we're currently in lazy
mmu mode.

The mmu_update hypercall can take a batch of updates to perform, but
this code doesn't make particular use of that feature, in favour of
using generic multicall batching to get them all into the hypervisor.

The net effect of this is that each mprotect pte update turns from two
expensive trap-and-emulate faults into they hypervisor into a single
hypercall whose cost is amortized in a batched multicall.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-06-25 15:17:23 +02:00
..
boot x86: fix unused variable 'loops' warning in arch/x86/boot/a20.c 2008-06-12 21:27:05 +02:00
configs x86: add optimized inlining 2008-04-26 17:44:55 +02:00
crypto
ia32 signals: x86 TS_RESTORE_SIGMASK 2008-04-30 08:29:37 -07:00
kernel paravirt: add hooks for ptep_modify_prot_start/commit 2008-06-25 15:16:00 +02:00
kvm KVM: Make kvm host use the paravirt clocksource structs 2008-06-24 21:02:32 +03:00
lguest lguest: fix ugly <NULL> in /proc/interrupts 2008-05-30 15:09:43 +10:00
lib x86-64: Fix "bytes left to copy" return value for copy_from_user() 2008-06-17 17:47:50 -07:00
mach-default
mach-es7000
mach-generic
mach-rdc321x
mach-visws
mach-voyager x86, voyager: fix ioremap_nocache() 2008-04-30 23:15:34 +02:00
math-emu x86: fix broken math-emu with lazy allocation of fpu area 2008-06-04 13:11:46 +02:00
mm Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip 2008-06-12 12:55:32 -07:00
oprofile
pci Merge branch 'pci-for-jesse' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip into for-linus 2008-06-12 13:51:05 -07:00
power
vdso x86: use explicit copy in vdso_gettimeofday() 2008-05-23 14:08:06 +02:00
video x86: video/fbdev.c: add MODULE_LICENSE 2008-05-04 20:04:46 +02:00
xen xen: implement ptep_modify_prot_start/commit 2008-06-25 15:17:23 +02:00
Kconfig x86: KVM guest: Use the paravirt clocksource structs and functions 2008-06-24 21:02:33 +03:00
Kconfig.cpu x86: CONFIG_X86_ELAN fix 2008-04-30 23:15:35 +02:00
Kconfig.debug x86: fix CONFIG_NONPROMISC_DEVMEM prompt and help text 2008-06-05 14:21:45 -07:00
Makefile
Makefile_32.cpu