Changeset fb63c06 in mainline for kernel/generic/include/mm/page.h

Timestamp:

2016-09-01T16:37:51Z (8 years ago)

Author:

Jakub Jermar <jakub@…>

Branches:

lfn, master, serial, ticket/834-toolchain-update, topic/msim-upgrade, topic/simplify-dev-export

Children:

2a2fbc8

Parents:

346b12a2

Message:

Make page hash table critical sections smaller

After the change of the page mapping interface to work exclusively with
a copy of the actual PTE, the critical section around page hash table
look-ups, insertions and deletions can be much smaller.

This change necessitated the change of the page_ht_lock mutex into a
spinlock, because the page mapping API can be used from within TLB
shootdown sequence, which is basically a spinlock-protected critical
section and we cannot take a mutex while holding a spinlock.

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