[PATCH] paravirt: kpte flush
Create a new PTE function which combines clearing a kernel PTE with the
subsequent flush. This allows the two to be easily combined into a single
hypercall or paravirt-op. More subtly, reverse the order of the flush for
kmap_atomic. Instead of flushing on establishing a mapping, flush on clearing
a mapping. This eliminates the possibility of leaving stale kmap entries
which may still have valid TLB mappings. This is required for direct mode
hypervisors, which need to reprotect all mappings of a given page when
changing the page type from a normal page to a protected page (such as a page
table or descriptor table page). But it also provides some nicer semantics
for real hardware, by providing extra debug-proofing against using stale
mappings, as well as ensuring that no stale mappings exist when changing the
cacheability attributes of a page, which could lead to cache conflicts when
two different types of mappings exist for the same page.
Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
diff --git a/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h b/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h
index 94c87ff..ee9696d 100644
--- a/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-i386/pgtable.h
@@ -441,6 +441,13 @@
#define pte_unmap_nested(pte) do { } while (0)
#endif
+/* Clear a kernel PTE and flush it from the TLB */
+#define kpte_clear_flush(ptep, vaddr) \
+do { \
+ pte_clear(&init_mm, vaddr, ptep); \
+ __flush_tlb_one(vaddr); \
+} while (0)
+
/*
* The i386 doesn't have any external MMU info: the kernel page
* tables contain all the necessary information.