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diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
index 329b8c8ca703..fa5c73ff8226 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -188,6 +188,23 @@ static inline pte_t ptep_get_and_clear_full(struct mm_struct *mm,
}
#endif
+
+/*
+ * If two threads concurrently fault at the same page, the thread that
+ * won the race updates the PTE and its local TLB/Cache. The other thread
+ * gives up, simply does nothing, and continues; on architectures where
+ * software can update TLB, local TLB can be updated here to avoid next page
+ * fault. This function updates TLB only, do nothing with cache or others.
+ * It is the difference with function update_mmu_cache.
+ */
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_UPDATE_MMU_TLB
+static inline void update_mmu_tlb(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
+ unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep)
+{
+}
+#define __HAVE_ARCH_UPDATE_MMU_TLB
+#endif
+
/*
* Some architectures may be able to avoid expensive synchronization
* primitives when modifications are made to PTE's which are already