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[PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: drop unused ptep_get_and_clear
authorJeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>
Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:15 +0000 (19:27 +0200)
committerAndi Kleen <andi@basil.nowhere.org>
Wed, 2 May 2007 17:27:15 +0000 (19:27 +0200)
commit4cdd9c8931767e1c56a51a1078d33a8c340f4405
treebf8b49009011bb2dffe9683dffdcbfe3b90375f9
parent1a45b7aaa5051489b46afbc48509bd91f8b4a1ba
[PATCH] i386: PARAVIRT: drop unused ptep_get_and_clear

In shadow mode hypervisors, ptep_get_and_clear achieves the desired
purpose of keeping the shadows in sync by issuing a native_get_and_clear,
followed by a call to pte_update, which indicates the PTE has been
modified.

Direct mode hypervisors (Xen) have no need for this anyway, and will trap
the update using writable pagetables.

This means no hypervisor makes use of ptep_get_and_clear; there is no
reason to have it in the paravirt-ops structure.  Change confusing
terminology about raw vs. native functions into consistent use of
native_pte_xxx for operations which do not invoke paravirt-ops.

Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com>
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
arch/i386/kernel/paravirt.c
include/asm-i386/paravirt.h
include/asm-i386/pgtable.h