Re: [PATCH] mips,mm: Reinstate move_pte optimization

From: Ralf Baechle
Date: Mon Jan 11 2010 - 05:16:18 EST


On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 03:32:57PM +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:

> > to include/linux/mm.h - I'd prefer to keep it private if we can.
> > But for completeness, this would involve resurrecting the 2.6.19
> > MIPS move_pte(), which makes sure mremap() move doesn't interfere
> > with our assumptions. Something like
> >
> > #define __HAVE_ARCH_MOVE_PTE
> > pte_t move_pte(pte_t pte, pgprot_t prot, unsigned long old_addr,
> > unsigned long new_addr)
> > {
> > if (pte_present(pte) && is_zero_pfn(pte_pfn(pte)))
> > pte = mk_pte(ZERO_PAGE(new_addr), prot);
> > return pte;
> > }
> >
> > in arch/mips/include/asm/pgtable.h.
>
> I agree with resurrecting mips move_pte. At least your patch
> passed my cross compile test :)
>
> Ralf, can you please review following patch?

Looks good.

Acked-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks,

Ralf
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