From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>,
wesolows@foobazco.org, willy@debian.org,
Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
mingo@elte.hu, bcrl@kvack.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
Linux Arch list <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc64: Fix possible race with set_pte on a present PTE
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 08:07:41 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1085522860.15315.133.camel@gaston> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0405251455320.9951@ppc970.osdl.org>
> static inline void ptep_update_dirty_accessed(pte_t *ptep, pte_t entry, int dirty)
> {
> unsigned long bits = pte_value(entry) & (_PAGE_DIRTY | _PAGE_ACCESSED);
> unsigned long tmp;
>
> __asm__ __volatile__(
> "1: lwarx %0,0,%3\n\
> or %0,%2,%0\n\
> stwcx. %0,0,%3\n\
> bne- 1b"
> :"=&r" (tmp), "=m" (*ptep)
> :"r" (bits), "r" (ptep)
> :"cc");
> }
>
> /* Make asm-generic/pgtable.h know about it.. */
> #define ptep_update_dirty_accessed ptep_update_dirty_accessed
That looks good on a first look, I need to re-read the whole discussion since
yesterday through to make sure I didn't miss anything. Note that I'd rather
call the function ptep_set_* than ptep_update_* to make clear that it can
only ever be used to _set_ those bits.
Ben.
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2004-05-24 5:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-24 5:34 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-24 5:38 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-24 5:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-24 7:39 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-24 5:39 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-25 3:43 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-25 4:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 4:17 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-25 4:37 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-25 4:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-25 4:20 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-25 4:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 4:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 4:59 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-25 5:09 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-25 4:50 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-25 4:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 4:43 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-25 4:53 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-27 21:56 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-27 22:00 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-27 22:12 ` David Mosberger
2004-05-25 11:44 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-05-25 14:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 15:35 ` Keith M Wesolowski
2004-05-25 16:19 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 17:25 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-25 17:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 17:54 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-25 18:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 20:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 20:35 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-25 20:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 20:57 ` David S. Miller
2004-05-26 6:20 ` Keith M Wesolowski
2004-05-25 21:40 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-25 21:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 22:00 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 22:07 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2004-05-25 22:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-26 0:21 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-26 0:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-26 3:25 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-26 4:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-26 4:12 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-26 4:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-26 4:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-26 4:49 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-26 4:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-26 4:46 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-26 4:54 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-26 4:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-26 5:41 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-26 5:59 ` [PATCH] (signoff) " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-26 6:55 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-25 22:05 ` [PATCH] " Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-25 22:09 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 22:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-05-25 22:24 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 21:27 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-25 21:43 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 21:55 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-25 22:01 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-25 22:18 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2004-05-25 22:42 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-26 2:26 ` Linus Torvalds
2004-05-26 7:06 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-05-25 21:44 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2004-06-01 12:04 Martin Schwidefsky
2004-06-01 12:10 Martin Schwidefsky
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