x86, pat: separate the pfn attribute tracking for remap_pfn_range and vm_insert_pfn
authorSuresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Mon, 8 Oct 2012 23:28:29 +0000 (16:28 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tue, 9 Oct 2012 07:22:16 +0000 (16:22 +0900)
commit5180da410db6369d1f95c9014da1c9bc33fb043e
tree1d92975710b33a90f77f39d0ad33669329dea949
parentb1a86e15dc0304366f50ba1720834bc419c801b1
x86, pat: separate the pfn attribute tracking for remap_pfn_range and vm_insert_pfn

With PAT enabled, vm_insert_pfn() looks up the existing pfn memory
attribute and uses it.  Expectation is that the driver reserves the
memory attributes for the pfn before calling vm_insert_pfn().

remap_pfn_range() (when called for the whole vma) will setup a new
attribute (based on the prot argument) for the specified pfn range.
This addresses the legacy usage which typically calls remap_pfn_range()
with a desired memory attribute.  For ranges smaller than the vma size
(which is typically not the case), remap_pfn_range() will use the
existing memory attribute for the pfn range.

Expose two different API's for these different behaviors.
track_pfn_insert() for tracking the pfn attribute set by vm_insert_pfn()
and track_pfn_remap() for the remap_pfn_range().

This cleanup also prepares the ground for the track/untrack pfn vma
routines to take over the ownership of setting PAT specific vm_flag in
the 'vma'.

[khlebnikov@openvz.org: Clear checks in track_pfn_remap()]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: tweak a few comments]
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venki@google.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@kernel.dk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@openvz.org>
Cc: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: James Morris <james.l.morris@oracle.com>
Cc: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Cc: Kentaro Takeda <takedakn@nttdata.co.jp>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@openvz.org>
Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com>
Cc: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Cc: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
arch/x86/mm/pat.c
include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
mm/memory.c