From: Rik van Riel <redacted>

The function ptep_set_access_flags() is only ever invoked to set access
flags or add write permission on a PTE.  The write bit is only ever set
together with the dirty bit.

Because we only ever upgrade a PTE, it is safe to skip flushing entries on
remote TLBs. The worst that can happen is a spurious page fault on other
CPUs, which would flush that TLB entry.

Lazily letting another CPU incur a spurious page fault occasionally is
(much!) cheaper than aggressively flushing everybody else's TLB.

Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <redacted>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <redacted>
Cc: Michel Lespinasse <redacted>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
---
 arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c |    9 ++++++++-
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
index 8573b83..be3bb46 100644
--- a/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c
+++ b/arch/x86/mm/pgtable.c

@@ -301,6 +301,13 @@ void pgd_free(struct mm_struct *mm, pgd_t *pgd)
 	free_page((unsigned long)pgd);
 }
 
+/*
+ * Used to set accessed or dirty bits in the page table entries
+ * on other architectures. On x86, the accessed and dirty bits
+ * are tracked by hardware. However, do_wp_page calls this function
+ * to also make the pte writeable at the same time the dirty bit is
+ * set. In that case we do actually need to write the PTE.
+ */
 int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 			  unsigned long address, pte_t *ptep,
 			  pte_t entry, int dirty)

@@ -310,7 +317,7 @@ int ptep_set_access_flags(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
 	if (changed && dirty) {
 		*ptep = entry;
 		pte_update_defer(vma->vm_mm, address, ptep);
-		flush_tlb_page(vma, address);
+		__flush_tlb_one(address);
 	}
 
 	return changed;

-- 
1.7.9.2

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