Re: [PATCH 0/2] [GIT PULL] tracing: various bug fixes

From: Chris Wright
Date: Thu Apr 23 2009 - 13:27:53 EST


* Jeremy Fitzhardinge (jeremy@xxxxxxxx) wrote:
> OK, the good news is that its not a callee-save calling convention
> problem, which is what I feared. But it does sound pretty awkward to
> fix. Does __native_flush_tlb_global() have to use
> raw_local_irq_save/restore?

Vaguely related...makes sense to do native_(read/write)_cr4 since it's
the native tlb flushing implementation, no?

looks ok from inspection, not tested yet...

thanks,
-chris
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Subject: [PATCH] x86: use native register access for native tlb flushing

currently these are paravirtulaized, doesn't appear any callers rely on
this (no pv_ops backends are using native_tlb and overriding cr3/4
access).

Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
index 16a5c84..a5ecc9c 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/tlbflush.h
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@

static inline void __native_flush_tlb(void)
{
- write_cr3(read_cr3());
+ native_write_cr3(native_read_cr3());
}

static inline void __native_flush_tlb_global(void)
@@ -32,11 +32,11 @@ static inline void __native_flush_tlb_global(void)
*/
raw_local_irq_save(flags);

- cr4 = read_cr4();
+ cr4 = native_read_cr4();
/* clear PGE */
- write_cr4(cr4 & ~X86_CR4_PGE);
+ native_write_cr4(cr4 & ~X86_CR4_PGE);
/* write old PGE again and flush TLBs */
- write_cr4(cr4);
+ native_write_cr4(cr4);

raw_local_irq_restore(flags);
}
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