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authorDavid Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com>2011-09-29 16:53:32 +0100
committerKonrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com>2011-11-16 12:13:08 -0500
commitcd12909cb576d37311fe35868780e82d5007d0c8 (patch)
tree70ec60af4feb32087f542a838fe4dce8717f0cd6 /mm/vmalloc.c
parent1ea6b8f48918282bdca0b32a34095504ee65bab5 (diff)
xen: map foreign pages for shared rings by updating the PTEs directly
When mapping a foreign page with xenbus_map_ring_valloc() with the GNTTABOP_map_grant_ref hypercall, set the GNTMAP_contains_pte flag and pass a pointer to the PTE (in init_mm). After the page is mapped, the usual fault mechanism can be used to update additional MMs. This allows the vmalloc_sync_all() to be removed from alloc_vm_area(). Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@citrix.com> Acked-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> [v1: Squashed fix by Michal for no-mmu case] Signed-off-by: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm/vmalloc.c')
-rw-r--r--mm/vmalloc.c27
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 14 deletions
diff --git a/mm/vmalloc.c b/mm/vmalloc.c
index b669aa6f6ca..3231bf33287 100644
--- a/mm/vmalloc.c
+++ b/mm/vmalloc.c
@@ -2141,23 +2141,30 @@ void __attribute__((weak)) vmalloc_sync_all(void)
static int f(pte_t *pte, pgtable_t table, unsigned long addr, void *data)
{
- /* apply_to_page_range() does all the hard work. */
+ pte_t ***p = data;
+
+ if (p) {
+ *(*p) = pte;
+ (*p)++;
+ }
return 0;
}
/**
* alloc_vm_area - allocate a range of kernel address space
* @size: size of the area
+ * @ptes: returns the PTEs for the address space
*
* Returns: NULL on failure, vm_struct on success
*
* This function reserves a range of kernel address space, and
* allocates pagetables to map that range. No actual mappings
- * are created. If the kernel address space is not shared
- * between processes, it syncs the pagetable across all
- * processes.
+ * are created.
+ *
+ * If @ptes is non-NULL, pointers to the PTEs (in init_mm)
+ * allocated for the VM area are returned.
*/
-struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size)
+struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size, pte_t **ptes)
{
struct vm_struct *area;
@@ -2171,19 +2178,11 @@ struct vm_struct *alloc_vm_area(size_t size)
* of kernel virtual address space and mapped into init_mm.
*/
if (apply_to_page_range(&init_mm, (unsigned long)area->addr,
- area->size, f, NULL)) {
+ size, f, ptes ? &ptes : NULL)) {
free_vm_area(area);
return NULL;
}
- /*
- * If the allocated address space is passed to a hypercall
- * before being used then we cannot rely on a page fault to
- * trigger an update of the page tables. So sync all the page
- * tables here.
- */
- vmalloc_sync_all();
-
return area;
}
EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(alloc_vm_area);