From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Add an optimization to install_file_pte: if the VMA is uniform (and thus we're
likely called by MAP_POPULATE), and the PTE was null, it will be installed
correctly if needed at fault time - we avoid thus touching the page tables,
but we must still do the walk...
The PTE could have a wrong value only if we are in a private VMA, and it was a
broken COW page, either installed or swapped. So, in subsequent patches we
even optimize away the walk.
Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
linux-2.6.git-paolo/mm/fremap.c | 9 +++++++++
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+)
diff -puN mm/fremap.c~rfp-linear-optim-v2 mm/fremap.c
--- linux-2.6.git/mm/fremap.c~rfp-linear-optim-v2 2005-08-25
12:50:10.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.git-paolo/mm/fremap.c 2005-08-25 12:58:29.000000000 +0200
@@ -125,6 +125,9 @@ int install_file_pte(struct mm_struct *m
pud_t *pud;
pgd_t *pgd;
pte_t pte_val;
+ int uniform = !(vma->vm_flags & (VM_NONUNIFORM | VM_NONLINEAR));
+
+ BUG_ON(!uniform && !(vma->vm_flags & VM_SHARED));
pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr);
spin_lock(&mm->page_table_lock);
@@ -140,6 +143,12 @@ int install_file_pte(struct mm_struct *m
pte = pte_alloc_map(mm, pmd, addr);
if (!pte)
goto err_unlock;
+ /*
+ * Skip uniform non-existent ptes:
+ */
+ err = 0;
+ if (uniform && pte_none(*pte))
+ goto err_unlock;
zap_pte(mm, vma, addr, pte);
_
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