Commit 8d1acce4 authored by Rik van Riel's avatar Rik van Riel Committed by Mel Gorman

mm: Only flush the TLB when clearing an accessible pte

If ptep_clear_flush() is called to clear a page table entry that is
accessible anyway by the CPU, eg. a _PAGE_PROTNONE page table entry,
there is no need to flush the TLB on remote CPUs.
Signed-off-by: default avatarRik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarPeter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/tip-vm3rkzevahelwhejx5uwm8ex@git.kernel.orgSigned-off-by: default avatarIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
parent 2c3cf556
...@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ pte_t ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, ...@@ -88,6 +88,7 @@ pte_t ptep_clear_flush(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address,
{ {
pte_t pte; pte_t pte;
pte = ptep_get_and_clear((vma)->vm_mm, address, ptep); pte = ptep_get_and_clear((vma)->vm_mm, address, ptep);
if (pte_accessible(pte))
flush_tlb_page(vma, address); flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
return pte; return pte;
} }
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