mm/gup: Move page table entry dereference into helper function
authorKirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Thu, 16 Mar 2017 15:26:51 +0000 (18:26 +0300)
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Sat, 18 Mar 2017 08:48:02 +0000 (09:48 +0100)
commit0005d20b2ff1e501e186b3b3bc587085ac305fdc
treeb0f05c1dc037f034e533ead0a56eeeb9dd5f0b23
parente7884f8ead4a301b04687a3238527b06feef8ea0
mm/gup: Move page table entry dereference into helper function

This is a preparation patch for the transition of x86 to the generic GUP_fast()
implementation.

On x86 PAE, page table entry is larger than sizeof(long) and we would
need to provide a helper that can read the entry atomically.

Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Aneesh Kumar K . V <aneesh.kumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: Dann Frazier <dann.frazier@canonical.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Cc: Steve Capper <steve.capper@linaro.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170316152655.37789-4-kirill.shutemov@linux.intel.com
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
mm/gup.c