Re: [PATCH 07/10] x86, xen, mm: Do not need to check if page tableis ioremap

From: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk
Date: Tue Oct 09 2012 - 12:24:50 EST


On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 09:39:15PM -0700, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> All page table buf are pre-mapped, and could use _va to access them.

"__va", not "_va". And can you also include the name of the patch
that makes them pre-mapped?

>
> Remove the not needed checking.

<sigh>
"Remove the ioremap check."

>
> Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Konrad Rzeszutek Wilk <konrad.wilk@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/xen/mmu.c | 8 ++------
> 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> index 7a769b7..9c0956c 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> +++ b/arch/x86/xen/mmu.c
> @@ -1412,13 +1412,9 @@ static pte_t __init mask_rw_pte(pte_t *ptep, pte_t pte)
>
> /*
> * If the new pfn is within the range of the newly allocated
> - * kernel pagetable, and it isn't being mapped into an
> - * early_ioremap fixmap slot as a freshly allocated page, make sure
> - * it is RO.
> + * kernel pagetable, make sure it is RO.
> */
> - if (((!is_early_ioremap_ptep(ptep) &&
> - pfn >= pgt_buf_start && pfn < pgt_buf_top)) ||
> - (is_early_ioremap_ptep(ptep) && pfn != (pgt_buf_end - 1)))
> + if (pfn >= pgt_buf_start && pfn < pgt_buf_top)
> pte = pte_wrprotect(pte);
>
> return pte;
> --
> 1.7.7
>
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