Re: [PATCH] mips,mm: Reinstate move_pte optimization

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:32:57PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> > to include/linux/mm.h - I'd prefer to keep it private if we can.
> > But for completeness, this would involve resurrecting the 2.6.19
> > MIPS move_pte(), which makes sure mremap() move doesn't interfere
> > with our assumptions.  Something like
> > 
> > #define __HAVE_ARCH_MOVE_PTE
> > pte_t move_pte(pte_t pte, pgprot_t prot, unsigned long old_addr,
> >                                          unsigned long new_addr)
> > {
> > 	if (pte_present(pte) && is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte)))
> > 		pte = mk_pte(ZERO_PAGE(new_addr), prot);
> > 	return pte;
> > }
> > 
> > in arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h.
> 
> I agree with resurrecting mips move_pte. At least your patch
> passed my cross compile test :)
> 
> Ralf, can you please review following patch?

Looks good.

Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

Thanks,

  Ralf