On Thu, Jun 15, 2017 at 05:52:23PM +0300, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > -void pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, > +pmd_t pmdp_invalidate(struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, > pmd_t *pmdp) > { > - pmd_t entry = *pmdp; > - set_pmd_at(vma->vm_mm, address, pmdp, pmd_mknotpresent(entry)); > - flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE); > + pmd_t old = pmdp_establish(pmdp, pmd_mknotpresent(*pmdp)); > + if (pmd_present(old)) > + flush_pmd_tlb_range(vma, address, address + HPAGE_PMD_SIZE); > + return old; > } > #endif The pmd_present() check added above is superflous because there's no point to call pmdp_invalidate if the pmd is not present (present as in pmd_present) already. pmd_present returns true if _PAGE_PSE is set and it was always set before calling pmdp_invalidate. It looks like we could skip the flush if _PAGE_PRESENT is not set (i.e. for example if the pmd is PROTNONE) but that's not what the above pmd_present will do.