From f4ae5da0e8e92caa168e7c2a7c4a6c4064b082c2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thomas Gleixner Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2008 16:48:07 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86: cpa, check if we changed anything and tlb flushing is necessary Flush tlbs only when there was a real change. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar --- arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c | 18 +++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c index d1c0830..79a9f1b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c +++ b/arch/x86/mm/pageattr.c @@ -21,6 +21,7 @@ struct cpa_data { int numpages; pgprot_t mask_set; pgprot_t mask_clr; + int flushtlb; }; static inline int @@ -329,11 +330,19 @@ repeat: * not the memory it points to */ new_pte = pfn_pte(pte_pfn(old_pte), canon_pgprot(new_prot)); - set_pte_atomic(kpte, new_pte); + + /* + * Do we really change anything ? + */ + if (pte_val(old_pte) != pte_val(new_pte)) { + set_pte_atomic(kpte, new_pte); + cpa->flushtlb = 1; + } } else { err = split_large_page(kpte, address); if (!err) goto repeat; + cpa->flushtlb = 1; } return err; } @@ -438,10 +447,17 @@ static int change_page_attr_set_clr(unsigned long addr, int numpages, cpa.numpages = numpages; cpa.mask_set = mask_set; cpa.mask_clr = mask_clr; + cpa.flushtlb = 0; ret = __change_page_attr_set_clr(&cpa); /* + * Check whether we really changed something: + */ + if (!cpa.flushtlb) + return ret; + + /* * No need to flush, when we did not set any of the caching * attributes: */ -- 2.7.4