From: david.vrabel@citrix.com (David Vrabel)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_[un]map_refs to avoid m2p_override
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:35:58 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <531DF7FE.1000708@citrix.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1393516530-9145-1-git-send-email-zoltan.kiss@citrix.com>
On 27/02/14 15:55, Zoltan Kiss wrote:
> (This is a continuation of "[PATCH v9] xen/grant-table: Avoid m2p_override
> during mapping")
>
> The grant mapping API does m2p_override unnecessarily: only gntdev needs it,
> for blkback and future netback patches it just cause a lock contention, as
> those pages never go to userspace. Therefore this series does the following:
> - the bulk of the original function (everything after the mapping hypercall)
> is moved to arch-dependent set/clear_foreign_p2m_mapping
> - the "if (xen_feature(XENFEAT_auto_translated_physmap))" brach goes to ARM
> - therefore the ARM function could be much smaller, the m2p_override stubs
> could be also removed
> - on x86 the set_phys_to_machine calls were moved up to this new funcion
> from m2p_override functions
> - and m2p_override functions are only called when there is a kmap_ops param
>
> It also removes a stray space from arch/x86/include/asm/xen/page.h.
Applied to devel/for-linus-3.15.
Thanks.
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-03-10 17:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-02-27 15:55 [PATCH] xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_[un]map_refs to avoid m2p_override Zoltan Kiss
2014-03-10 17:14 ` Zoltan Kiss
2014-03-10 17:35 ` David Vrabel [this message]
2014-03-16 16:32 ` Stefano Stabellini
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