[RFC/PATCH 10/12] remove call to flush_tlb_page() from handle_pte_fault()

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>]

I've asked several times what archs need that, got not reply, so
let's remove it. If an arch needs it, it should be done by that
arch implementation of ptep_set_access_flags() anyway.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
---

 mm/memory.c |    9 ---------
 1 file changed, 9 deletions(-)

Index: linux-work/mm/memory.c
===================================================================
--- linux-work.orig/mm/memory.c	2007-08-07 16:23:53.000000000 +1000
+++ linux-work/mm/memory.c	2007-08-07 16:27:30.000000000 +1000
@@ -2605,15 +2605,6 @@ static inline int handle_pte_fault(struc
 	if (ptep_set_access_flags(vma, address, pte, entry, write_access)) {
 		update_mmu_cache(vma, address, entry);
 		lazy_mmu_prot_update(entry);
-	} else {
-		/*
-		 * This is needed only for protection faults but the arch code
-		 * is not yet telling us if this is a protection fault or not.
-		 * This still avoids useless tlb flushes for .text page faults
-		 * with threads.
-		 */
-		if (write_access)
-			flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
 	}
 unlock:
 	pte_unmap_unlock(pte, ptl);

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