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authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>2007-07-17 18:37:05 -0700
committerJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>2007-07-18 08:47:43 -0700
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parentxen: add pinned page flag (diff)
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xen: Complete pagetable pinning
Xen requires all active pagetables to be marked read-only. When the base of the pagetable is loaded into %cr3, the hypervisor validates the entire pagetable and only allows the load to proceed if it all checks out. This is pretty slow, so to mitigate this cost Xen has a notion of pinned pagetables. Pinned pagetables are pagetables which are considered to be active even if no processor's cr3 is pointing to is. This means that it must remain read-only and all updates are validated by the hypervisor. This makes context switches much cheaper, because the hypervisor doesn't need to revalidate the pagetable each time. This also adds a new paravirt hook which is called during setup once the zones and memory allocator have been initialized. When the init_mm pagetable is first built, the struct page array does not yet exist, and so there's nowhere to put he init_mm pagetable's PG_pinned flags. Once the zones are initialized and the struct page array exists, we can set the PG_pinned flags for those pages. This patch also adds the Xen support for pte pages allocated out of highmem (highpte) by implementing xen_kmap_atomic_pte. Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Cc: Zach Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
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diff --git a/arch/i386/xen/xen-ops.h b/arch/i386/xen/xen-ops.h
index 79648fe1ab77..54d98b52085e 100644
--- a/arch/i386/xen/xen-ops.h
+++ b/arch/i386/xen/xen-ops.h
@@ -20,6 +20,8 @@ unsigned long xen_get_wallclock(void);
int xen_set_wallclock(unsigned long time);
cycle_t xen_clocksource_read(void);
+void xen_mark_init_mm_pinned(void);
+
DECLARE_PER_CPU(enum paravirt_lazy_mode, xen_lazy_mode);
static inline unsigned xen_get_lazy_mode(void)