[PATCH 6/9] 00mm9 optimize ptep establish for pae.patch

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The ptep_establish macro is only used on user-level PTEs, for P->P mapping
changes.  Since these always happen under protection of the pagetable lock, the
strong synchronization of a 64-bit cmpxchg is not needed, in fact, not
even a lock prefix needs to be used.  We can simply instead clear the P-bit,
followed by a normal set.  The write ordering is still important to avoid the
possibility of the TLB snooping a partially written PTE and getting a bad
mapping installed.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <[email protected]>

===================================================================
--- a/include/asm-i386/pgtable-2level.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/pgtable-2level.h
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
 #define set_pte(pteptr, pteval) (*(pteptr) = pteval)
 #define set_pte_at(mm,addr,ptep,pteval) set_pte(ptep,pteval)
 #define set_pte_atomic(pteptr, pteval) set_pte(pteptr,pteval)
+#define set_pte_present(mm,addr,ptep,pteval) set_pte_at(mm,addr,ptep,pteval)
 #define set_pmd(pmdptr, pmdval) (*(pmdptr) = (pmdval))
 
 #define pte_clear(mm,addr,xp)	do { set_pte_at(mm, addr, xp, __pte(0)); } while (0)
===================================================================
--- a/include/asm-i386/pgtable-3level.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/pgtable-3level.h
@@ -57,6 +57,21 @@ static inline void set_pte(pte_t *ptep, 
 	ptep->pte_low = pte.pte_low;
 }
 #define set_pte_at(mm,addr,ptep,pteval) set_pte(ptep,pteval)
+
+/*
+ * Since this is only called on user PTEs, and the page fault handler
+ * must handle the already racy situation of simultaneous page faults,
+ * we are justified in merely clearing the PTE present bit, followed
+ * by a set.  The ordering here is important.
+ */
+static inline void set_pte_present(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
+{
+	ptep->pte_low = 0;
+	smp_wmb();
+	ptep->pte_high = pte.pte_high;
+	smp_wmb();
+	ptep->pte_low = pte.pte_low;
+}
 
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_SET_PTE_ATOMIC
 #define set_pte_atomic(pteptr,pteval) \
===================================================================
--- a/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h
@@ -269,6 +269,17 @@ do {									\
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_TEST_AND_CLEAR_DIRTY
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_TEST_AND_CLEAR_YOUNG
 
+/*
+ * Rules for using ptep_establish: the pte MUST be a user pte, and
+ * must be a present->present transition.
+ */
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_ESTABLISH
+#define ptep_establish(vma, address, ptep, pteval)			\
+do {									\
+	set_pte_present((vma)->vm_mm, address, ptep, pteval);		\
+	flush_tlb_page(vma, address);					\
+} while (0)
+
 #define __HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_CLEAR_DIRTY_FLUSH
 #define ptep_clear_flush_dirty(vma, address, ptep)			\
 ({									\
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