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authorChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>2007-11-20 11:13:36 +0100
committerMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>2007-11-20 11:13:46 +0100
commitce7e9fae8db07af4080e868f4588f8f095f803dc (patch)
tree000a6cc755ee35ef3cfc0795c13ed500dc5457de /mm
parentb8e7a54cd06b0b0174029ef3a7f5a1415a2c28f2 (diff)
downloadlinux-ce7e9fae8db07af4080e868f4588f8f095f803dc.tar.gz
[S390] Optimize storage key handling for anonymous pages
page_mkclean used to call page_clear_dirty for every given page. This
is different to all other architectures, where the dirty bit in the
PTEs is only resetted, if page_mapping() returns a non-NULL pointer.
We can move the page_test_dirty/page_clear_dirty sequence into the
2nd if to avoid unnecessary iske/sske sequences, which are expensive.

This change also helps kvm for s390 as the host must transfer the
dirty bit into the guest status bits. By moving the page_clear_dirty
operation into the 2nd if, the vm will only call page_clear_dirty
for pages where it walks the mapping anyway. There it calls
ptep_clear_flush for writable ptes, so we can transfer the dirty bit
to the guest.

Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'mm')
-rw-r--r--mm/rmap.c9
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/mm/rmap.c b/mm/rmap.c
index dc3be5f5b0da..dbc2ca2057a5 100644
--- a/mm/rmap.c
+++ b/mm/rmap.c
@@ -471,11 +471,12 @@ int page_mkclean(struct page *page)
 
 	if (page_mapped(page)) {
 		struct address_space *mapping = page_mapping(page);
-		if (mapping)
+		if (mapping) {
 			ret = page_mkclean_file(mapping, page);
-		if (page_test_dirty(page)) {
-			page_clear_dirty(page);
-			ret = 1;
+			if (page_test_dirty(page)) {
+				page_clear_dirty(page);
+				ret = 1;
+			}
 		}
 	}