Change reserve_ram_pages_type and free_ram_pages_type to use 2 page
flags to track UC_MINUS, WC, WB and default types. Previous RAM tracking
just tracked WB or NonWB, which was not complete and did not allow
tracking of RAM fully and there was no way to get the actual type
reserved by looking at the page flags.
We use the memtype_lock spinlock for atomicity in dealing with
memtype tracking in struct page.
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Add new interfaces:
set_pages_array_uc()
set_pages_array_wb()
that can be used change the page attribute for a bunch of pages with
flush etc done once at the end of all the changes. These interfaces
are similar to existing set_memory_array_uc() and set_memory_array_wc().
Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Cc: arjan@infradead.org
Cc: eric@anholt.net
Cc: airlied@redhat.com
LKML-Reference: <20090319215358.901545000@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Impact: cleanup
Unused macro parameters cause spurious unused variable warnings.
Convert all cacheflush macros to inline functions to avoid the
warnings and achieve better type checking.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>
Impact: keep kernel text read only
Because dynamic ftrace converts the calls to mcount into and out of
nops at run time, we needed to always keep the kernel text writable.
But this defeats the point of CONFIG_DEBUG_RODATA. This patch converts
the kernel code to writable before ftrace modifies the text, and converts
it back to read only afterward.
The kernel text is converted to read/write, stop_machine is called to
modify the code, then the kernel text is converted back to read only.
The original version used SYSTEM_STATE to determine when it was OK
or not to change the code to rw or ro. Andrew Morton pointed out that
using SYSTEM_STATE is a bad idea since there is no guarantee to what
its state will actually be.
Instead, I moved the check into the set_kernel_text_* functions
themselves, and use a local variable to determine when it is
OK to change the kernel text RW permissions.
[ Update: Ingo Molnar suggested moving the prototypes to cacheflush.h ]
Reviewed-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
Change header guards named "ASM_X86__*" to "_ASM_X86_*" since:
a. the double underscore is ugly and pointless.
b. no leading underscore violates namespace constraints.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
