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author | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> | 2009-02-17 23:24:03 -0800 |
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committer | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com> | 2009-03-29 23:35:59 -0700 |
commit | 7fd7d83d49914f03aefffba6aee09032fcd54cce (patch) | |
tree | 8c9f5b95f6b63b5d28887f47d92a6c79139eac5f /include/asm-generic | |
parent | b8bcfe997e46150fedcc3f5b26b846400122fdd9 (diff) | |
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x86/pvops: replace arch_enter_lazy_cpu_mode with arch_start_context_switch
Impact: simplification, prepare for later changes
Make lazy cpu mode more specific to context switching, so that
it makes sense to do more context-switch specific things in
the callbacks.
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge@citrix.com>
Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-generic')
-rw-r--r-- | include/asm-generic/pgtable.h | 21 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h index 8e6d0ca..922f036 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h @@ -280,17 +280,18 @@ static inline void ptep_modify_prot_commit(struct mm_struct *mm, #endif /* - * A facility to provide batching of the reload of page tables with the - * actual context switch code for paravirtualized guests. By convention, - * only one of the lazy modes (CPU, MMU) should be active at any given - * time, entry should never be nested, and entry and exits should always - * be paired. This is for sanity of maintaining and reasoning about the - * kernel code. + * A facility to provide batching of the reload of page tables and + * other process state with the actual context switch code for + * paravirtualized guests. By convention, only one of the batched + * update (lazy) modes (CPU, MMU) should be active at any given time, + * entry should never be nested, and entry and exits should always be + * paired. This is for sanity of maintaining and reasoning about the + * kernel code. In this case, the exit (end of the context switch) is + * in architecture-specific code, and so doesn't need a generic + * definition. */ -#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_ENTER_LAZY_CPU_MODE -#define arch_enter_lazy_cpu_mode() do {} while (0) -#define arch_leave_lazy_cpu_mode() do {} while (0) -#define arch_flush_lazy_cpu_mode() do {} while (0) +#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_START_CONTEXT_SWITCH +#define arch_start_context_switch() do {} while (0) #endif #ifndef __HAVE_PFNMAP_TRACKING |