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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/9] mm: introduce api for split page table lock for PMD level
On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 04:06:10PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Basic api, backed by mm->page_table_lock for now. Actual implementation
> will be added later.
>
> Signed-off-by: Naoya Horiguchi <n-horiguchi@ah.jp.nec.com>
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
> ---
> include/linux/mm.h | 13 +++++++++++++
> 1 file changed, 13 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm.h b/include/linux/mm.h
> index 6cf8ddb..d4361e7 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm.h
> @@ -1294,6 +1294,19 @@ static inline void pgtable_page_dtor(struct page *page)
> ((unlikely(pmd_none(*(pmd))) && __pte_alloc_kernel(pmd, address))? \
> NULL: pte_offset_kernel(pmd, address))
>
> +static inline spinlock_t *huge_pmd_lockptr(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
> +{
> + return &mm->page_table_lock;
> +}
> +
> +
> +static inline spinlock_t *huge_pmd_lock(struct mm_struct *mm, pmd_t *pmd)
> +{
> + spinlock_t *ptl = huge_pmd_lockptr(mm, pmd);
> + spin_lock(ptl);
> + return ptl;
> +}

Why not call the thing pmd_lock()? The pmd bit differentiates it from
pte_lock() enough IMIO.


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