From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2012 09:54:47 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: x86: mm: only do a local tlb flush in ptep_set_access_flags()
X-Git-Tag: v3.8-rc1~92^2~49
X-Git-Url: http://git.openpandora.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=0f9a921cf9bf3b524feddc484e2b4d070b7ca0d0;p=pandora-kernel.git

x86: mm: only do a local tlb flush in ptep_set_access_flags()

The function ptep_set_access_flags() is only ever invoked to set access
flags or add write permission on a PTE.  The write bit is only ever set
together with the dirty bit.

Because we only ever upgrade a PTE, it is safe to skip flushing entries on
remote TLBs. The worst that can happen is a spurious page fault on other
CPUs, which would flush that TLB entry.

Lazily letting another CPU incur a spurious page fault occasionally is
(much!) cheaper than aggressively flushing everybody else's TLB.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
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