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xen: implement ptep_modify_prot_start/commit

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Xen has a pte update function which will update a pte while preserving
its accessed and dirty bits.  This means that ptep_modify_prot_start() can be
implemented as a simple read of the pte value.  The hardware may
update the pte in the meantime, but ptep_modify_prot_commit() updates it while
preserving any changes that may have happened in the meantime.

The updates in ptep_modify_prot_commit() are batched if we're currently in lazy
mmu mode.

The mmu_update hypercall can take a batch of updates to perform, but
this code doesn't make particular use of that feature, in favour of
using generic multicall batching to get them all into the hypervisor.

The net effect of this is that each mprotect pte update turns from two
expensive trap-and-emulate faults into they hypervisor into a single
hypercall whose cost is amortized in a batched multicall.

Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-06-16 04:30:02 -07:00
committed by Ingo Molnar
parent 08b882c627
commit e57778a1e3
5 changed files with 45 additions and 5 deletions
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arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
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@@ -323,6 +323,27 @@ out:
preempt_enable();
}
pte_t xen_ptep_modify_prot_start(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, pte_t *ptep)
{
/* Just return the pte as-is. We preserve the bits on commit */
return *ptep;
}
void xen_ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr,
pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
{
struct multicall_space mcs;
struct mmu_update *u;
mcs = xen_mc_entry(sizeof(*u));
u = mcs.args;
u->ptr = virt_to_machine(ptep).maddr | MMU_PT_UPDATE_PRESERVE_AD;
u->val = pte_val_ma(pte);
MULTI_mmu_update(mcs.mc, u, 1, NULL, DOMID_SELF);
xen_mc_issue(PARAVIRT_LAZY_MMU);
}
/* Assume pteval_t is equivalent to all the other *val_t types. */
static pteval_t pte_mfn_to_pfn(pteval_t val)
{