kernel-ark/arch/i386
Zachary Amsden 23002d88be [PATCH] paravirt: kpte flush
Create a new PTE function which combines clearing a kernel PTE with the
subsequent flush.  This allows the two to be easily combined into a single
hypercall or paravirt-op.  More subtly, reverse the order of the flush for
kmap_atomic.  Instead of flushing on establishing a mapping, flush on clearing
a mapping.  This eliminates the possibility of leaving stale kmap entries
which may still have valid TLB mappings.  This is required for direct mode
hypervisors, which need to reprotect all mappings of a given page when
changing the page type from a normal page to a protected page (such as a page
table or descriptor table page).  But it also provides some nicer semantics
for real hardware, by providing extra debug-proofing against using stale
mappings, as well as ensuring that no stale mappings exist when changing the
cacheability attributes of a page, which could lead to cache conflicts when
two different types of mappings exist for the same page.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-01 00:39:34 -07:00
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boot [PATCH] i386: Fix the EDD code misparsing the command line 2006-09-26 10:52:38 +02:00
crypto [CRYPTO] api: Get rid of flags argument to setkey 2006-09-21 11:41:02 +10:00
kernel [PATCH] stack overflow safe kdump: safe smp_send_nmi_allbutself() 2006-10-01 00:39:31 -07:00
lib [PATCH] pidspace: is_init() 2006-09-29 09:18:12 -07:00
mach-default
mach-es7000
mach-generic [PATCH] i386: Replace i386 open-coded cmdline parsing with 2006-09-26 10:52:32 +02:00
mach-visws
mach-voyager [PATCH] stack overflow safe kdump: safe_smp_processor_id(): voyager 2006-10-01 00:39:31 -07:00
math-emu
mm [PATCH] paravirt: kpte flush 2006-10-01 00:39:34 -07:00
oprofile [PATCH] oprofile: ppro: need to enable/disable all the counters 2006-09-29 09:18:11 -07:00
pci [PATCH] arch/i386/pci/mmconfig.c tweaks 2006-10-01 00:39:18 -07:00
power [PATCH] Change the name of pagedir_nosave 2006-09-26 08:49:01 -07:00
defconfig [PATCH] i386: Update defconfig 2006-09-30 01:47:55 +02:00
Kconfig [PATCH] x86 microcode: add sysfs and hotplug support 2006-09-27 08:26:18 -07:00
Kconfig.cpu
Kconfig.debug
Makefile [PATCH] i386/x86-64: Work around gcc bug with noreturn functions in unwinder 2006-09-26 10:52:41 +02:00
Makefile.cpu