linux-stable-rt/arch/i386
Vivek Goyal 0dbf7028c0 [PATCH] x86: __pa and __pa_symbol address space separation
Currently __pa_symbol is for use with symbols in the kernel address
map and __pa is for use with pointers into the physical memory map.
But the code is implemented so you can usually interchange the two.

__pa which is much more common can be implemented much more cheaply
if it is it doesn't have to worry about any other kernel address
spaces.  This is especially true with a relocatable kernel as
__pa_symbol needs to peform an extra variable read to resolve
the address.

There is a third macro that is added for the vsyscall data
__pa_vsymbol for finding the physical addesses of vsyscall pages.

Most of this patch is simply sorting through the references to
__pa or __pa_symbol and using the proper one.  A little of
it is continuing to use a physical address when we have it
instead of recalculating it several times.

swapper_pgd is now NULL.  leave_mm now uses init_mm.pgd
and init_mm.pgd is initialized at boot (instead of compile time)
to the physmem virtual mapping of init_level4_pgd.  The
physical address changed.

Except for the for EMPTY_ZERO page all of the remaining references
to __pa_symbol appear to be during kernel initialization.  So this
should reduce the cost of __pa in the common case, even on a relocated
kernel.

As this is technically a semantic change we need to be on the lookout
for anything I missed.  But it works for me (tm).

Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-05-02 19:27:07 +02:00
..
boot [PATCH] x86: Don't probe for DDC on VBE1.2 2007-04-02 12:14:12 +02:00
crypto
kernel [PATCH] x86: __pa and __pa_symbol address space separation 2007-05-02 19:27:07 +02:00
lib [PATCH] i386: Add dwarf2 annotations to *_user and checksum functions 2007-05-02 19:27:05 +02:00
mach-default
mach-es7000
mach-generic [PATCH] i386: Add __init to probe_bigsmp 2007-05-02 19:27:05 +02:00
mach-visws
mach-voyager
math-emu
mm [PATCH] x86: __pa and __pa_symbol address space separation 2007-05-02 19:27:07 +02:00
oprofile [PATCH] i386: Support Oprofile for AMD Family 10 CPUs 2007-05-02 19:27:06 +02:00
pci [PATCH] MSI-X: fix resume crash 2007-03-28 13:59:37 -07:00
power [PATCH] x86: Move swsusp __pa() dependent code to arch portion 2007-05-02 19:27:07 +02:00
Kconfig
Kconfig.cpu [PATCH] i386: Add an option for the VIA C7 which sets appropriate L1 cache 2007-05-02 19:27:05 +02:00
Kconfig.debug
Makefile [PATCH] x86: Drop cc-options call for all options supported in gcc 3.2+ 2007-05-02 19:27:06 +02:00
Makefile.cpu [PATCH] i386: Fix usage of -mtune when X86_GENERIC=y or CONFIG_MCORE2=y 2007-05-02 19:27:06 +02:00
defconfig [PATCH] i386: Update defconfig 2007-05-02 19:27:04 +02:00