RE: [PATCH][2.6.23-rc2-mm2] small fix for ia64 icache sync patch

From: Luck, Tony
Date: Tue Aug 21 2007 - 17:12:20 EST


> + if (pte_present(pteval) &&// swap out ?
> + pte_exec(pteval) && // flush only new executable page.
> pte_user(pteval) && // ignore kernel page
> (!pte_present(*ptep) ||// do_no_page or swap in, migration,
> pte_pfn(*ptep) != pte_pfn(pteval))) // do_wp_page(), page copy

David Mosberger was concerned about the increase in code
size from this inline function. We can reduce the bloat
a bit by defining a macro that tests for "present &&
executable && user-mode" in one go:

#define pte_pux(pte) ((pte_val(pte) & (_PAGE_P|_PAGE_PL_MASK|_PAGE_AR_RX)) == \
(_PAGE_P|_PAGE_PL_3|_PAGE_AR_RX))

Perhaps there is a better name than "pte_pux"? I don't know whether
the code that this generates is faster, but it is smaller (bloat
is only 3k instead of 4k).

One last cleanup needed ... don't use C-99/C++ style comments.

-Tony
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