From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Ian Pratt <Ian.Pratt@cl.cam.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org,
Keir.Fraser@cl.cam.ac.uk, Christian.Limpach@cl.cam.ac.uk
Subject: Re: [patch 1] Xen core patch : ptep_establish_new
Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2004 10:11:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20041118101109.GA20859@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1CUZVj-00052O-00@mta1.cl.cam.ac.uk>
On Wed, Nov 17, 2004 at 11:46:50PM +0000, Ian Pratt wrote:
>
> This patch adds 'ptep_establish_new', in keeping with the
> existing 'ptep_establish', but for use where a mapping is being
> established where there was previously none present. This
> function is useful (rather than just using set_pte) because
> having the virtual address available enables a very important
> optimisation for arch-xen. We introduce
> HAVE_ARCH_PTEP_ESTABLISH_NEW and define a generic implementation
> in asm-generic/pgtable.h, following the pattern of the existing
> ptep_establish.
What would be the problem of always passing the virtual address to
ptep_establish? We already have a rather twisted maze of pte manipulation
macros.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-11-18 10:11 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-11-17 23:46 Ian Pratt
2004-11-18 2:56 ` Andrew Morton
2004-11-18 10:11 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2004-11-18 10:26 ` Ian Pratt
2004-11-18 10:29 ` Keir Fraser
2004-11-18 22:06 ` Paul Mackerras
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