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x86: mm: drop TLB flush from ptep_set_access_flags

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Intel has an architectural guarantee that the TLB entry causing
a page fault gets invalidated automatically. This means
we should be able to drop the local TLB invalidation.

Because of the way other areas of the page fault code work,
chances are good that all x86 CPUs do this.  However, if
someone somewhere has an x86 CPU that does not invalidate
the TLB entry causing a page fault, this one-liner should
be easy to revert.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@kernel.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <walken@google.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>
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Rik van Riel 2012-11-06 09:55:18 +00:00 committed by Mel Gorman
parent 0f9a921cf9
commit e4a1cc56e4
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arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
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@ -317,7 +317,6 @@ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
if (changed && dirty) {
*ptep = entry;
pte_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, address, ptep);
__flush_tlb_one(address);
}
return changed;