- paravirt-pte-clear-not-present.patch removed from -mm tree

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The patch titled

     paravirt: pte clear not present

has been removed from the -mm tree.  Its filename is

     paravirt-pte-clear-not-present.patch

This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree

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Subject: paravirt: pte clear not present
From: Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx>

Change pte_clear_full to a more appropriately named pte_clear_not_present,
allowing optimizations when not-present mapping changes need not be reflected
in the hardware TLB for protected page table modes.  There is also another
case that can use it in the fremap code.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx>
---

 include/asm-generic/pgtable.h |    9 +++++++--
 mm/fremap.c                   |    2 +-
 mm/memory.c                   |    2 +-
 3 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff -puN include/asm-generic/pgtable.h~paravirt-pte-clear-not-present include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
--- a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h~paravirt-pte-clear-not-present
+++ a/include/asm-generic/pgtable.h
@@ -112,8 +112,13 @@ do {				  					  \
 })
 #endif
 
-#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_CLEAR_FULL
-#define pte_clear_full(__mm, __address, __ptep, __full)			\
+/*
+ * Some architectures may be able to avoid expensive synchronization
+ * primitives when modifications are made to PTE's which are already
+ * not present, or in the process of an address space destruction.
+ */
+#ifndef __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_CLEAR_NOT_PRESENT_FULL
+#define pte_clear_not_present_full(__mm, __address, __ptep, __full)	\
 do {									\
 	pte_clear((__mm), (__address), (__ptep));			\
 } while (0)
diff -puN mm/fremap.c~paravirt-pte-clear-not-present mm/fremap.c
--- a/mm/fremap.c~paravirt-pte-clear-not-present
+++ a/mm/fremap.c
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ static int zap_pte(struct mm_struct *mm,
 	} else {
 		if (!pte_file(pte))
 			free_swap_and_cache(pte_to_swp_entry(pte));
-		pte_clear(mm, addr, ptep);
+		pte_clear_not_present_full(mm, addr, ptep, 0);
 	}
 	return !!page;
 }
diff -puN mm/memory.c~paravirt-pte-clear-not-present mm/memory.c
--- a/mm/memory.c~paravirt-pte-clear-not-present
+++ a/mm/memory.c
@@ -690,7 +690,7 @@ static unsigned long zap_pte_range(struc
 			continue;
 		if (!pte_file(ptent))
 			free_swap_and_cache(pte_to_swp_entry(ptent));
-		pte_clear_full(mm, addr, pte, tlb->fullmm);
+		pte_clear_not_present_full(mm, addr, pte, tlb->fullmm);
 	} while (pte++, addr += PAGE_SIZE, (addr != end && *zap_work > 0));
 
 	add_mm_rss(mm, file_rss, anon_rss);
_

Patches currently in -mm which might be from zach@xxxxxxxxxx are

origin.patch
x86-remove-default_ldt-and-simplify-ldt-setting.patch

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