From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: david.vrabel@citrix.com (David Vrabel) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:35:58 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] xen/grant-table: Refactor gnttab_[un]map_refs to avoid m2p_override In-Reply-To: <1393516530-9145-1-git-send-email-zoltan.kiss@citrix.com> References: <1393516530-9145-1-git-send-email-zoltan.kiss@citrix.com> Message-ID: <531DF7FE.1000708@citrix.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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