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From: "Jan Beulich" <jbeulich@novell.com>
To: "Andi Kleen" <ak@suse.de>
Cc: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, <patches@x86-64.org>
Subject: Re: [patches] [PATCH] [13/50] x86: Fix and reenable CLFLUSH support inchange_page_attr()
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:23:29 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <46F79021.76E4.0078.0@novell.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070921223211.BB50413DCD@wotan.suse.de>

>@@ -162,7 +198,7 @@ __change_page_attr(unsigned long address
> 	/* on x86-64 the direct mapping set at boot is not using 4k pages */
>  	BUG_ON(PageReserved(kpte_page));
> 
>-	save_page(kpte_page);
>+	save_page(kpte_page, 0);
> 	if (page_private(kpte_page) == 0)
> 		revert_page(address, ref_prot);
> 	return 0;

What is the point of continuing to launder kpte_page here? Page table pages
never get their caching attributes changed, nor would their direct mapping
ever change. (Same for i386, obviously.)

Jan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-09-24  8:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 105+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-09-21 22:31 [PATCH] [0/50] x86 2.6.24 patches review II Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:31 ` [PATCH] [1/50] x86_64: store core id bits in cpuinfo_x8 Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:31 ` [PATCH] [2/50] x86_64: use core id bits for apicid_to_node initialization Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [3/50] x86_64: remove never used apic_mapped Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [4/50] x86: add cpu codenames for Kconfig.cpu Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:45   ` Dave Jones
2007-09-21 23:52     ` Alan Cox
2007-09-22  6:57     ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-22  9:46       ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-22 14:23       ` Dave Jones
2007-09-22 17:40         ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-30 10:09     ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-22 17:50   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-10-01 11:17     ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [5/50] i386: change order in Kconfig.cpu Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [6/50] i386: clean up oops/bug reports Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:41   ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-09-22  9:47     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-22  2:51   ` Killing printk calls for size (Re: [PATCH] [6/50] i386: clean up oops/bug reports) Oleg Verych
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [7/50] x86: expand /proc/interrupts to include missing vectors, v2 Andi Kleen
2007-09-22  3:35   ` possible corrections in the docs (Re: [PATCH] [7/50] x86: expand /proc/interrupts to include missing vectors, v2) Oleg Verych
2007-09-22  3:52     ` Joe Korty
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [8/50] x86_64: remove x86_cpu_to_log_apicid Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [9/50] i386: validate against ACPI motherboard resources Andi Kleen
2007-09-22  6:49   ` Yinghai Lu
2007-09-22  6:56     ` Yinghai Lu
2007-09-22 16:28     ` Robert Hancock
2007-09-22 18:01       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-22 18:42         ` Robert Hancock
2007-09-22 20:40           ` Yinghai Lu
2007-09-22 20:56             ` H. Peter Anvin
2007-09-22 21:27             ` Robert Hancock
2007-09-23  1:20               ` Yinghai Lu
2007-09-23  1:34               ` Yinghai Lu
2007-09-22 20:47       ` Yinghai Lu
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [10/50] x86_64: install unstripped copies of compat vdso on disk Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [11/50] x86_64: Install unstripped copy of 64bit vdso to disk Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [12/50] x86_64: Untable __init references between IO data Andi Kleen
2007-09-22  5:37   ` [patches] " Yinghai Lu
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [13/50] x86: Fix and reenable CLFLUSH support in change_page_attr() Andi Kleen
2007-09-22  5:47   ` Oleg Verych
2007-10-01 10:59     ` Andi Kleen
2007-09-24  8:23   ` Jan Beulich [this message]
2007-10-01 10:38     ` [patches] [PATCH] [13/50] x86: Fix and reenable CLFLUSH support inchange_page_attr() Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [14/50] x86: Minor code-style cleanups to change_page_attr Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [15/50] x86_64: Return EINVAL for unknown address in change_page_attr Andi Kleen
2007-09-24  8:32   ` [patches] [PATCH] [15/50] x86_64: Return EINVAL for unknown addressin change_page_attr Jan Beulich
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [16/50] x86: Use macros to modify the PG_arch_1 page flags in change_page_attr Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [17/50] x86_64: remove STR() macros Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [18/50] x86_64: Save registers in saved_context during suspend and hibernation Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [19/50] Experimental: detect if SVM is disabled by BIOS Andi Kleen
2007-09-22  6:59   ` Sam Ravnborg
2007-09-22  9:17   ` Joerg Roedel
2007-10-01 16:47     ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-01 20:12       ` Joerg Roedel
2007-10-01 21:45         ` [patches] " Andi Kleen
2007-10-01 22:13           ` Joerg Roedel
2007-09-22 19:05   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [20/50] x86_64: Fix some broken white space in arch/x86_64/mm/init.c Andi Kleen
2007-09-22 19:17   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-23  1:47     ` Oleg Verych
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [21/50] i386: Misc cpuinit annotations Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [22/50] " Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [23/50] x86_64: Implement missing x86_64 function smp_call_function_mask() Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [24/50] x86_64: Eliminate result signage problem in asm-x86_64/bitops.h Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [25/50] x86_64: Add parenthesis to IRQ vector macros Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [26/50] i386: export i386 smp_call_function_mask() to modules Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [27/50] x86_64: Remove duplicated vsyscall nsec update Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [28/50] i386: remove stub early_printk.c Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [29/50] x86: honor _PAGE_PSE bit on page walks Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [30/50] x86_64: remove some dead code Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [31/50] x86_64: honor notify_die() returning NOTIFY_STOP Andi Kleen
2007-09-22 19:23   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [32/50] x86: Show last exception from/to register contents Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [33/50] x86: rename .i assembler includes to .h Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [34/50] i386: Fix argument signedness warnings Andi Kleen
2007-09-22  5:06   ` Satyam Sharma
2007-09-22 10:01     ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-09-22 17:42       ` Randy Dunlap
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [35/50] i386: Do cpuid_device_create() in CPU_UP_PREPARE instead of CPU_ONLINE Andi Kleen
2007-09-22 19:33   ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-23  1:52     ` Akinobu Mita
2007-09-23  7:52       ` Thomas Gleixner
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [36/50] x86: Use raw locks during oopses Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [37/50] x86_64: Clean up mce= argument parsing slightly Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [38/50] x86_64: fix off-by-one in find_next_zero_string Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [39/50] i386: fix 4 bit apicid assumption of mach-default Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [40/50] i386: Fix section mismatch Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [41/50] i386: fix section mismatch warning in intel.c Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [42/50] i386: constify wd_ops Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [43/50] x86: multi-byte single instruction NOPs Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [44/50] i386: Introduce "used_vectors" bitmap which can be used to reserve vectors Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [45/50] x86_64: configure HPET_EMULATE_RTC automatically Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [46/50] x86: also show non-zero IRQ counts for vectors that currently don't have a handler Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [47/50] i386: avoid temporarily inconsistent pte-s Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [48/50] x86_64: return correct error code from child_rip in x86_64 entry.S Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [49/50] x86_64: Initialize 64bit registers for a.out executables Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 22:32 ` [PATCH] [50/50] x86_64: Remove fpu io port resource Andi Kleen
2007-09-21 23:00   ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-01 10:40     ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-01 11:30       ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-01 11:48         ` Andi Kleen
2007-10-01 13:33           ` Jeff Garzik
2007-10-01 14:16             ` Mark Lord
2007-10-02 14:37         ` Alan Cox

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