Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH] respin of mprotect performance patch

["Bruce Rogers" <brogers@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I made a few tweaks to your patch as follows:
As I see it we need to preserve the existing AD bits but additionally OR in the 
AD bits being passed in (see behavior of pte_modify(), where it preserves 
current AD in use of _PAGE_CHG_MASK along with ORing in newprot bits, which 
include AD bits (A at least).)
See update_intpte() for this change.

Also we need to remove cmd value from req.ptr in do_mmu_update..

Updated Linux patch is also included.

Let me know if I'm missing the point some how.

Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@xxxxxxxxxx>

- Bruce

>>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at  4:47 AM, in message
<C3AE5951.12129%Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Keir Fraser
<Keir.Fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> Bruce,
> 
> Attached is my equivalent implementation of ATOMIC_PT_UPDATE. Notice that I
> changed the name to MMU_PT_UPDATE_PRESERVE_AD, also that I removed a bunch
> of code duplication albeit at the expense of passing yet another parameter
> around.
> 
> Could you rev your Linux patch and give it a spin?
> 
>  Thanks,
>  Keir
> 
> On 8/1/08 01:05, "Bruce Rogers" <brogers@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I've incorporated the comments of Jan and Keir into the attached patches, 
> with
>> the exception of moving mmu_ops related entries from public/xen.h into
>> architecture specific headers.
>> Thanks for your review.  Let me know if I've missed anything.
>> 
>> Signed-off-by: Bruce Rogers <brogers@xxxxxxxxxx>
>> 
>> - Bruce
>> 
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