[PATCH 08/10] x86: mm: Restore original pte_special check

Mel Gorman mgorman at suse.de
Mon Jan 5 21:54:09 AEDT 2015


Commit b38af4721f59 ("x86,mm: fix pte_special versus pte_numa") adjusted
the pte_special check to take into account that a special pte had SPECIAL
and neither PRESENT nor PROTNONE. Now that NUMA hinting PTEs are no
longer modifying _PAGE_PRESENT it should be safe to restore the original
pte_special behaviour.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman at suse.de>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h | 8 +-------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
index b9a13e9..4673d6e 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/pgtable.h
@@ -137,13 +137,7 @@ static inline int pte_exec(pte_t pte)
 
 static inline int pte_special(pte_t pte)
 {
-	/*
-	 * See CONFIG_NUMA_BALANCING pte_numa in include/asm-generic/pgtable.h.
-	 * On x86 we have _PAGE_BIT_NUMA == _PAGE_BIT_GLOBAL+1 ==
-	 * __PAGE_BIT_SOFTW1 == _PAGE_BIT_SPECIAL.
-	 */
-	return (pte_flags(pte) & _PAGE_SPECIAL) &&
-		(pte_flags(pte) & (_PAGE_PRESENT|_PAGE_PROTNONE));
+	return pte_flags(pte) & _PAGE_SPECIAL;
 }
 
 static inline unsigned long pte_pfn(pte_t pte)
-- 
2.1.2



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