From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx114.postini.com [74.125.245.114]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D488A6B0075 for ; Wed, 21 Nov 2012 05:22:02 -0500 (EST) From: Mel Gorman Subject: [PATCH 02/46] x86: mm: drop TLB flush from ptep_set_access_flags Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 10:21:08 +0000 Message-Id: <1353493312-8069-3-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <1353493312-8069-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> References: <1353493312-8069-1-git-send-email-mgorman@suse.de> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Peter Zijlstra , Andrea Arcangeli , Ingo Molnar Cc: Rik van Riel , Johannes Weiner , Hugh Dickins , Thomas Gleixner , Paul Turner , Lee Schermerhorn , Alex Shi , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Linux-MM , LKML , Mel Gorman From: Rik van Riel Intel has an architectural guarantee that the TLB entry causing a page fault gets invalidated automatically. This means we should be able to drop the local TLB invalidation. Because of the way other areas of the page fault code work, chances are good that all x86 CPUs do this. However, if someone somewhere has an x86 CPU that does not invalidate the TLB entry causing a page fault, this one-liner should be easy to revert. Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Michel Lespinasse Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c | 1 - 1 file changed, 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c index be3bb46..7353de3 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c @@ -317,7 +317,6 @@ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma, if (changed && dirty) { *ptep = entry; pte_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, address, ptep); - __flush_tlb_one(address); } return changed; -- 1.7.9.2 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org